SB10 specifies that student documents may not be used as “proof of identification” for voting purposes, and that county voter-registration offices must remove disenfranchised criminals and non-citizens from their voter lists within 48 hours.
The Senate passed SB10 on April 7, 2025, by a vote of 39 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill improves Indiana’s voter ID requirements by closing a significant loophole that risks electoral fraud and disenfranchisement of qualified U.S. citizen voters. Article 2, Section 14, of the Indiana Constitution clearly grants the General Assembly power to provide by law for the “registration of all persons entitled to vote” in the state. Further, it the American people alone who retain the “right of Representation in the Legislature.” The General Assembly should perform its duty and exercise the full extent of its authority under Article 1, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the 14th and 26th Amendments, to implement free, fair, and secure elections, thus ensuring “the right of citizens of the United States to vote.”
