When someone registers to vote in Oklahoma, he or she is given a voter identification card, but it doesn’t have a photo on it, and the state also requires voters at the polls to show government photo-ID. Representative David Perryman (D-Chickasha), an attorney, has introduced HB 3150. It provides that future voter identification cards carry the photo of the voter, and also an image of each of the two index fingers. The purpose of this would be to eliminate the need for voters at the polls to show government photo-Id, assuming that the voter brought his or her voter identification card to the polls. Thanks to Richard Prawdzienski for this news.
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Edited By Richard Winger
What is interesting about this bill is that it is adding a requirement that doesn’t currently exist nor is it needed. The current voter ID law allows for people to use the current voter registration card as the form of ID. This bill will just make that card more complicated.
But why the need for the finger prints? Oklahoma drivers licenses don’t even require a finger print on them. That requirement is dumb and needs to go.