New Hampshire: Senate removes student IDs as indisputable ID for voting | NEWS06

The state Senate Thursday passed with strict party line votes legislation that changes the current state voter identification law by removing its clear statutory reference to student IDs as an acceptable form of voter ID. The Senate, also along party lines, changed the House-passed voter registration bill by restoring reference to motor vehicle laws that had been removed by the House. The current voter ID law allowed for the 2012 election a list of seven forms of identification acceptable at a polling place, including a student ID, and absent any of those, verification of the person’s identity by a local election official. If a voter was challenged, the voter would fill out a “challenged voter affidavit.”
House Bill 595, as passed by the Democratic-controlled House, kept those seven forms of identification intact and permanently eliminated the requirement that those without IDs have their photos taken at polling places.
The Senate Republican plan passed Thursday on a 13-10 vote, championed by Senate Public and Municipal Affairs Chairman David Boutin, cuts that list to four items and restores the photo requirement but puts it off for two years, until September 2015.
The changes made by the Senate on each bill will require that they return to the House, which will either concur with the Senate, “non-concur” and set up a conference committee, or non-concur without a conference committee, killing the bills and keeping the current laws in place.
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