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MY TURN: SAVE Act will create barriers for voters

by MIKE GRIDLEY / Guest Opinion
| February 20, 2026 1:00 AM

The author of the Feb. 15 letter to the editor entitled, “Voter ID: Wonder why?” is flat out wrong when he states in the first sentence that “If you listen to one particular party you don’t need an ID for voter registration.” 

He argues that because we show identification at a doctor’s office, a pharmacy or a truck rental counter, we should require the same for voting. Well, guess what? We are already required to show an ID to vote, and there is no “particular party” that says we shouldn’t.

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