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Ohio Photo ID Constitutional Amendment Question Goes To Voters

While a good step toward greater ballot protection, conservative critics say the measures ‘leave a lot of legal loopholes.’

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It’s now up to Ohio voters to decide whether a three-year-old photo identification law will be an enshrined amendment to the Buckeye State constitution — an amendment President Donald Trump vehemently endorsed this week.  

Ready to skip off to summer recess, The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday night passed a joint resolution that sends constitutional amendment question to voters in November. A recent poll showed broad support for amending the state constitution to lock in the law that requires voters show photo ID at the polls. The measure easily passed the Senate last week. 

Ohio Senate President Rob McColley told reporters at the time that he expects overwhelming support for the amendment because it’s “the type of protection that voters want to see in the system.”

“This will be, if not the strongest, one of the strongest election integrity, voter identification, photo identification measures,” McColley told reporters after Wednesday’s vote in the House. 

But some conservatives have warned that the proposed amendment and the passage of an accompanying bill is less about protection and more about political performance. 

“This whole thing was just done ass backwards,” a frustrated Marcell Strbich, a former Ohio Secretary of State candidate and election integrity activist, told The Federalist in a phone interview Wednesday. 

Senate Resolution 10 does deliver constitutional protection. The amendment, if approved, would require another referendum to undo........

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