LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — If a bill that just cleared the Michigan House on a straight party line vote becomes law, there will be one less thing that you will be able to do with Kalamazoo County’s new I.D. card.
The locally issued identification cards are expected to be available beginning early next month, and are meant to provide an alternate form of Identification for people who can’t get a state I.D. or driver’s license. Detroit and Ann Arbor already issue them.
A bill sponsored by Representative Aaron Miller of Sturgis would ban them from being used to register to vote. Currently you can use a state issued I.D. a passport or a tribal I.D. even a student I.D. issued by a high school or college to register. Democrats argued a County I.D. is more valid than a student ID surely.
The bill now heads over to the State Senate.
