New Law Tightens Absentee Voting (IN)

Hometown News ^ | 5/19/23 | Liam Hobbs

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(Indianapolis, IN) - A new law tightening absentee voting requirements was signed this week.

On Tuesday, Governor Eric Holcomb signed House Bill 1334, which requires some form of identification to be included with a mail-in ballot.

Acceptable proofs of I.D. include the last four digits of your social security number, a driver's license number, or state I.D. or voter registration number.

Republican state representative Tim Wesco of Osceola sponsored the bill. The law goes into effect July 1.

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The Democrats act as if this will stop hoards of voters from being able to vote. Hopefully, it will reduce the number of ways that fake ballots are submitted.

There is also a more in-depth article at the Epoch Times regarding the new law.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/indiana-adds-id-requirements-to-mail-in-voting-to-make-process-as-secure-as-voting-in-person_5279501.html

"Indiana Adds ID Requirements to Mail-In Voting to Make Process ‘As Secure As’ Voting in Person"

"State Rep. Tonya Pfaff (D-Terre Haute) had challenged Wesco during a debate on the measure on the House floor in April.

“It is unnecessary to make it more difficult for the elderly, people voting by travel board, and those serving in the military to vote. It won’t make elections safer and only serves to hamper democracy,” Pfaff said, reported The Times of Northwest Indiana."

[Roadrunner383]

Yes! Courts are allowing strict requirments for mail-in voting. This is a 180 degree turn-around from the past.

States can require valid state ID to get a mail-in ballot, they can require the voter to fill out the application by hand, sign and date the application.

States can remove almost all drop-boxes, can require remaining drop boxes to be at a public building and not on the street corner. They can restrict drop-box hours and require the boxes to be locked outside those hours (no more midnight ballot drops).

The catch? State legislators have to get off their butts and actually write the legislation. In blue states, not gonna happen. But no excuses in red states.

[kvanbrunt2]

Doesn’t much matter. When the counter just send more dem votes thru the machine. No audits means every election process is fraudulent.

[GreyFriar]

I live in Indiana and am glad that the governor signed this bill. Pfaff’s, the Dem rep, statement doesn’t surprise me in the least; she forgot to add that African-Americans are especially discriminated by this in they they can’t get any of the required proofs. I spent 20 years in the US Army and had no problem voting absentee in Indiana during that time and adding the last 4 SSN won’t affect the military, since every member has a SS card.

[Lysandru]

When I first voted in 1984, it was by absentee ballot. The State of Indiana required me to have my ballot notarized.

Bravo!