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Article: House OKs voter ID bill; Bishop, Cannon vote yea
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2006
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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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