{"id":12848,"date":"2010-02-10T10:52:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2010-02-10T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:57:56","slug":"id-or-other-document-required-under-same-day-registration-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/id-or-other-document-required-under-same-day-registration-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"ID or other document required under same-day registration bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12474\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12474\" title=\"Hamilton, Dianne\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Hamilton-Dianne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Hamilton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>State Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HHAMI\">Dianne Hamilton<\/a> recently wrote in a guest column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/same-day-voter-registration-should-require-photo-id\/\">published on this site<\/a> that two pending same-day voter registration bills would allow people to register without providing some form of photo ID or another document such as a utility bill.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed the legislation also \u201callows an individual to register and vote by providing a \u2018verbal or written statement by the voter of the voter\u2019s name, registration address and year of birth&#8230;.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that isn\u2019t true at all.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that New Mexicans can vote under the current law by providing a verbal or written statement instead of presenting a photo ID, utility bill, bank statement or other document. But the current law doesn\u2019t allow same-day registration. The deadline to register to vote in an election comes weeks before that election under the current law.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=123&amp;year=10\">House Bill 123<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=161&amp;year=10\">Senate Bill 161<\/a> \u2013 would allow same-day registration during early voting, but only if people present a photo ID, utility bill, bank statement or other document.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the bills state that those registering on the same day that they vote must present \u201ca physical form of identification as defined in Subsection A\u201d of the current law. Subsection A defines that ID as:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201can original or copy of a current and valid government-issued photo identification with or without an address, which address is not required to match the [voter\u2019s certificate of] qualified elector\u2019s registration address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 or \u201can original or copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, student identification card or other government document, including identification issued by an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo, that shows the name and address of the person, the address of which is [not] required to match the [voter\u2019s certificate of] qualified elector\u2019s registration address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s subsection B of the current law that allows \u201ca verbal or written statement by the voter of the voter\u2019s name, registration address and year of birth; provided, however, that the statement of the voter\u2019s name need not contain the voter\u2019s middle initial or suffix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subsection B wouldn\u2019t apply to same-day registration under the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve sent Hamilton an e-mail seeking comment. I\u2019ll let you know if she responds.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article has been updated to clarify that the pending legislation applies to early voting but not voting on Election Day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Dianne Hamilton recently wrote in a guest column published on this site that two pending same-day voter registration bills would allow people to register without providing some form of photo ID or another document such as a utility bill. Turns out that isn\u2019t true at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-12848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}