Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins says she’ll back a strict voter identification bill that would require a photo ID at the polls, proof of citizenship to register and require states to regularly turn over voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security.
The proposal recently cleared the GOP-controlled House despite near unanimous opposition from Democrats, including Maine Reps. Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree.
Golden had supported a previous version of the bill, but he and three other centrist Democrats opposed the measure that cleared the House last week, 218-213.
The amended version includes a requirement that states turn over their voting rolls to the Department of Homeland Security to check for noncitizen voters, an extremely small number according to voting rights advocates on the left and right. Noncitizens are already barred from voting in federal elections.
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