COLUMBUS, OHIO — Senator Jon Husted brought a straightforward bill to the Senate floor: require photo identification to vote in federal elections. The same ID you need to rent a car, board a plane, check into a hotel, or walk into a government building. Husted’s bill accepts state driver’s licenses, state IDs, U.S. passports, military IDs, and tribal IDs. Nothing exotic. Nothing unreasonable.
Sherrod Brown — who lost his Senate seat and is now running again — just went on the record calling voter ID an “unnecessary barrier.” Not a complicated ask. Not a partisan power grab. Just showing a photo ID to vote. And Sherrod Brown thinks that’s too much.
80% of Americans support voter ID. Ohio already requires it. Husted oversaw four statewide elections as Secretary of State with one mission: make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. His bill would simply bring the rest of the country up to Ohio’s standard.
But Brown doesn’t want that. He wants you to believe that protecting election integrity is somehow an attack on voting rights. Ask yourself: why would anyone oppose something this simple?
Brown said, “Our leaders should be trying to make it easier to vote, not creating unnecessary barriers.”
Ohio GOP Chairman Alex Triantafilou responded: “Photo identification is standard for nearly every aspect of our lives. This measure protects the integrity of our process.”
Ohio needs leaders who fight for election security — not career politicians who call common sense an “unnecessary barrier.” Read the full story at the Dayton Daily News.
