Comment 2

3.a. Regulatory Provision:  None included regarding Voter Identification for absentee voting.

3.b. My Recommendation: 

Add a paragraph to:

- Require voters to provide a copy of their photo ID every time they vote absentee.  This can be in any of the following forms:

-  his or her driver license number or official state personal identification card number on the application, or

-  attach a copy of identification for election purposes to his or her application

3.c. My Comment:

Photo Voter Identification must be included in submission of absentee ballots.  A recent Monmouth Poll revealed 80% of Americans support requiring a photo identification to vote as the common sense measure for bringing trust and confidence to elections. 

The many examples of why this is easy for any voter to accomplish notwithstanding, it is just as applicable in absentee voting.  Absentee voting should be more stringent, or at least commensurate with, identification requirements for in-person voting.

Signatures should never be a source of voter identification, without commensurate investment in resources to ensure availability of signature samples and signature analysts.  Election Officials are Not signature analysts.  Additionally, signatures on Envelope B are solely the voter affirmation that they did not lie.  This should never be conflated as a substitute for voter identification.  It is empty prose creating an illusion of integrity and burdening the process of auditing/verification.