CONCORD – Advocacy groups for voters, seniors and civil libertarians joined a legislative effort to strike down the law that starting this fall will require voters to show a state-approved, photo ID card at the polls.
Joan Ashwell, with the League of Women Voters, conceded the difficulty of getting lawmakers to junk a law such as this one before it’s fully implemented.
“We understand the reluctance of one Legislature to repeal a law just passed by a different Legislature,” Ashwell told the House Election Laws Committee. “In this case, we aren’t talking about a simple bill like naming a bridge or funding one amount of money in the budget or another. The voter ID threatens the most precious right of our citizens, the right to vote.”
But Rep. Laurie Sanborn, R-Bedford, said the 2012 presidential primary revealed a weakness in the system when a conservative blogger had volunteers pose at the polls as dead people in Nashua and Manchester and were given ballots.
“Voter fraud has been documented,” Sanborn said, speaking for the House GOP leadership team.![]()
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