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GOP bill to add ID component to absentee ballot apps is dead

Republicans hoped to incorporate ID and signature verification for absentee ballot applicants.

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Republicans' attempts to add an ID component to absentee ballot applications and to institute signature verification at polling places have died in the GOP-led Legislature. 

Rep. Ann Bollin says she and many other House Republicans oppose a Senate bill that would require absentee ballot applicants to include a copy of their photo ID, their driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. Those who don't would get a provisional ballot. 

The Senate, meanwhile, is poised to reject the House GOP's proposal to require that in-person voters' signatures be verified before they're given a ballot.

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