Reply #12: IN: Election Reminder: Photo ID Required

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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Election reminder
Photo ID required to have vote count

Saturday, April 29, 2006


Voters who do not have a government-issued photo ID will have to produce one within 10 days after the party primaries Tuesday or their votes won’t count.

The deadline for producing a picture ID at the clerk’s office in the courthouse is noon May 12.

The requirement for showing a government-issued identification such as a driver’s license or a free, state-issued picture ID is new this year in Indiana. A state-issued picture identification can be obtained at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles license branch, 175 Demaree Drive.

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The only people who will be exempt from showing a picture ID at the polls are those who are indigent, those whose religion prohibits the taking of a photo, or a person who is in a state institution that is the person’s polling place, Indiana secretary of state’s office said. Those voters will be given provisional ballots and will have 10 days after the primary to document that they deserved the exemption, the secretary of state’s office said.

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http://www.madisoncourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=253&ArticleID=29930&TM=38132.23