Voter ID

Ohio voters will have a whole slate of statewide candidates to choose from this fall, but just one ballot issue is going before them.

Trump surprised Republican lawmakers June 24, when, shortly before a planned signing ceremony at the Capitol, he announced he wouldn’t approve the bill until lawmakers first passed the voting legislation.

Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that required a photo ID for mail-in ballots and another affecting submetering for some utility customers.

In a mad dash before summer recess, state lawmakers sent him a heavily-amended House Bill 472 two weeks ago. It originally sought to give homeless Ohioans free ID cards.

The GOP-majority legislature concurrently advanced major, related modifications of mail-in voting to an unrelated bill originally meant to get homeless Ohioans ID cards.

A bipartisan bill that started out as an avenue for homeless Ohioans to get free identifying documents like birth certificates and state ID cards has been fast tracked as it's turned into something else.

A rushed effort to ask voters whether to amend Ohio’s constitution and add existing voter identification requirements is likely on deck for final votes Wednesday.

Under existing law, Ohioans generally need a state driver’s license or ID card, a United States passport or passport card or a military ID to do so.

Ohio lawmakers want to put Ohio's current voter ID law on the ballot this fall so voters can codify it in the Ohio Constitution.

The heads of both the Ohio House and Senate want voters to decide whether to codify their existing ID requirements in the state constitution this November.