LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new voting bill moved through the Kentucky Senate on Monday. Senate Bill 80 would limit the types of identifications you could use to vote.
Current state requires a photo ID in order to vote. Currently, people can use university of college ID's to vote.
However, the bill's primary sponsor, Republican Sen. Adrienne Southworth, said these are issued with less personal information and therefore shouldn't be accepted.
"People that have these government-issued documents have had to do things like, you know, swear an oath, they have an ethics code or an employee," Southworth said. "And there's a lot of, kind of, surrounding stuff that goes around to where we assume these people may be telling us the truth."
However, Democratic Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong called the bill "a solution in search of a problem."
"I haven't heard any evidence that these forms of ID are more likely to be subject to fraud," she said. "I worry that by taking away a source of identification, most often used by some of our more vulnerable residents, who don't have access to some of these government issued IDs that require folks to gather documents, they can be expensive, both in terms of time and money, that we're actually making it more difficult for folks to vote."
The bill passed out of committee and is headed to the Senate floor.
It is expected to be voted on for passage on Tuesday.
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