• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Elections / Missouri SOS confident voter ID funding request will be honored

Missouri SOS confident voter ID funding request will be honored

March 24, 2017 By Alisa Nelson

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says he feels confident his office will get $1.4 million to carry out the state’s new photo ID requirement to vote. Ashcroft says the legislature and governor agree with that figure.

Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (picture from Facebook)

Governor Greitens’s proposed spending plan that begins in July originally included $100,000 to apply to the voter ID law.

“We didn’t look at other numbers for it. We didn’t look at what other people had said you need,” says Ashcroft. “We looked at the law and said what does the law require, what do we think the spirit of the law is saying?”

Under the law approved by Missouri voters last year, a government-issued photo ID and supporting documentation, like a birth certificate would be paid for by the state. Those without a photo ID could still vote if they sign a waiver and show a utility bill or paycheck.

Ashcroft says his budget request includes fulfilling the law’s requirements and advertising to educate the public about voter requirements.

“We’ve been told that we’ll get it (the funding). Obviously there’s a little bit of pushback just to make sure it’s what we need, but that’s what you would expect,” says Ashcroft. “Wouldn’t you want the legislature, when the Secretary of State comes in and says this is what I need saying ‘Do you really need that or are you just trying to inflate your budget?’ Don’t you want a governor that’s saying ‘Do you really need that?’”

Ashcroft says the first elections under the new law will be in August.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Elections, Legislature, News

Subscribe to our daily newsletter


Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Budweiser ads will be missing from Super Bowl LV

Anheuser-Bu … [Read More...]

Missouri will be well represented in Super Bowl LV

A former … [Read More...]

The difference in the AFC title game? Kelce got open, Diggs didn’t (PODCAST)

Thanks for … [Read More...]

Chiefs will likely be without starting left tackle Eric Fisher

Patrick … [Read More...]

Chiefs will defend their Super Bowl title

The Kansas … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC