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Apr 6, 2021 / 10:15 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Election security or voter suppression: Those were the issues raised Tuesday about a bill that would make changes to Indiana’s election rules.
No action was taken after hours of debate, but further debate is expected to happen Thursday.
Under the bill, Hoosiers who apply for absentee ballots would have to include their driver’s license numbers or the last four of their Social Security numbers.
“We think that here is just tremendous potential for that to cause problems and cause the application to be rejected,” Julia Vaughn, policy director with Common Cause Indiana, told a legislative committee.
Proposed Indiana voting law change faces corporate criticism
TOM DAVIES, Associated Press
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) One of Indiana’s most prominent corporations is criticizing an Indiana proposal that opponents maintain will make mail-in voting more difficult by requiring voters to submit identification numbers with their ballot applications.
The bill’s Republican sponsors say it is aimed at preventing voter fraud by having similar voter ID requirements for mail voting as the state has for in-person voting at polling sites.
Stephen Fry, Eli Lilly and Co.’s senior vice president for human resources and diversity, told a legislative committee Tuesday that the company believed the bill wasn’t needed and that state officials acted correctly to allow no-excuse mail-in voting for the spring 2020 primary because of COVID-19 concerns. The Indiana bill is among a wave of GOP-backed election proposals that were introduced in states around the country after former P
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