Reply #35: Indiana House to Decide on Voter Identification Issue [View All]

Indiana House to Decide on Voter Identification Issue

House lawmakers are expected to cast a final vote on Senate Bill 483 on Monday.

It would require Indiana voters to show a photo ID when they go to the ballot box. Republicans say it will cut back on voter fraud.

But Democrats think it will make it harder for senior citizens and African Americans to vote.

Former Congressman Andy Jacobs says voting rights should not be tampered with. He helped write the landmark national voting rights act in 1965.

“A week after Lyndon Johnson signed the 65 Voting Rights Act into law, I saw Southern racist Congresspeople from both parties entertaining African constituents in the grand dining room at the United States House of Representatives and I said, ‘Yes!