Article: House OKs voter ID bill; Bishop, Cannon vote yea

WASHINGTON -- Voters would need photo identification to prove they are citizens who can legally cast a ballot, based on a bill passed by the House Wednesday.

The House vote was 228-196 on The Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006, a day after a Georgia judge struck down a state law that also required government-issued photo identification.

The Senate still needs to act on the bill before it would become law.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, voted in favor of the bill while Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, voted against it.

The bill's supporters said the bill was to protect U.S. citizens' right to vote by eliminating the chance someone who is not a citizen would manage to ...

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