Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has vetoed bills sponsored by his own party that would have required some voters to show a photo ID before they could get an absentee ballot and mandated extra training for groups registering voters.
He also vetoed legislation to require voters to reaffirm their U.S. citizenship before receiving a ballot. The governor said in a statement Tuesday that he signed 11 other election bills into law.
Common Cause Michigan and the League of Women Voters are among groups praising Snyder’s veto of the voter registration measure.
WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick called it a “huge, huge veto.”
“This puts the governor on the side of, if you can believe this, the ACLU and the Baptist ministers in Detroit who gave him an earful the other day when they talked about not wanting to show voter IDs in order to vote ,” said Skubick.
