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House and Senate Republicans have joined their counterparts in other states by introducing legislation aimed at dealing with voter fraud while stiffening identification requirements.
According to a release, the bills would:
Establish the Registered Voter List Improvement Task Force.
Review best practices to improve the verification of absentee ballot signatures.
Increase penalties for voter fraud.
Reform voter identification standards.
Reform the standards for absentee ballot requests.
“The registered voter list is often used by state lawmakers and many others to perform constituent mailings and conduct other public outreach,” said the prime sponsor of the bill, State Sen. Dave Wilson (R-Lincoln). “Any time I’ve done a mailing using it, I always get back a lot of undelivered pieces.”