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Protect Voting Rights: Tell Your Senator to Oppose HJR 48

Your urgent action is needed. The Missouri Senate is about to vote on HJR 48, a bill that will require photo IDs for all voters. This measure is intended to suppress voter turnout in November, when as many as 240,000 Missouri voters could be blocked from voting. The bill could disenfranchise seniors, minorities, married women and rural voters who may not have access to the documents required by this unfair bill.

We need you to speak up and contact your Senator right now. Urge him or her to vote NO on HRJ 48.

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I am writing to urge you to oppose HJR 48. This bill risks disenfranchising 240,000 Missourians, especially seniors, married women and rural voters who may not have access to the documents required to meet this law. Please stand up for voters and fair elections. Vote no on HJR 48, and please do not allow a vote to cut off debate.
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The Facts on HJR 48:

With this potential law, it doesn’t matter if you have voted in the past. If you aren’t able to provide documents like an original birth certificate or passport, you will not be allowed to vote.
Not only is this unfair, it’s just plain wrong. Missouri already requires people to identify themselves when they go to the polls and voter impersonation isn’t a problem, it is a poor use of over $6m in tax dollars.
Adopting an overly-restrictive, burdensome photo ID law doesn’t make sense and is not justified because it risks disenfranchising up to 240,000 registered Missouri voters who don’t now have a state-issued photo ID.
Even if photo IDs are provided free of cost, obtaining the underlying documents needed to prove your identity costs money and can be difficult or impossible to obtain.
No Missourian should be deprived of the right to vote because a government bureaucracy will not provide them a copy of their birth certificate.
This could adversely affect thousands of seniors, married women, rural voters who might not have access to these documents.
Elections cannot be fair if eligible voters are not allowed to vote. Elected officials have the responsibility to protect the voting rights of all citizens, not just those who have a state driver’s license.
Republicans say we need this bill because voter-impersonation is a huge problem in Missouri.
Let me set the record straight -- there are NO reported cases of voter impersonation ever here in Missouri.
This bill has passed the Missouri House and will now be considered by the Missouri Senate. Make no mistake – Republicans want this bill to pass so they can make a photo ID requirement part of our constitution. And – they want it on the ballot so they can use it to turn out their right-wing base and at the same time, confuse voters about voting requirements.