John Alexander
Score: 74
Republican
Voted against Freedom
Among other things, the most significant part of this bill weakens election reform laws to allow for exceptions to the voter ID requirement. Voters are allowed to cite a ‘reasonable impediment’ to obtaining a photo ID and thus be allowed to vote without showing identification at the polls. Such voters will be required to vote a provisional ballot. Civitas believes the conservative position is to support the integrity of elections and to take sensible safeguards to protect against vote fraud. The conservative vote is no.