In other news, the documents you can use to prove your identity at the ballot box could be changing under a bill that cleared the Senate this week.

Senator Adrian Southworth is the sponsor of Senate Bill eight.

It calls for removing all non government issued IDs as a primary source of identification in order to vote.

Now, that includes student IDs, which under this proposal would still be accepted as a secondary source of identification.

Credit cards, which are currently accepted only as a secondary source of ID, would be eliminated from the list altogether.

The bill drew a lot of debate on the Senate floor yesterday, with some Democrats predicting the measure would end up in court and that it could suppress voter turnout, especially among young people in Kentucky.

Removing college IDs from the list of acceptable ID will certainly create a barrier to our young people participating in democracy.

There is no evidence that college IDs are being used for voter fraud, and there's no evidence that they're more likely to be used for voter fraud than any other type of ID.

So I would avoid this that we know this going to be a challenge.

I would listen to the Republican secretary of state who said what we have is working.

We have not had complaints.

We do not have fraud.

We don't need to disenfranchize young voters from voting and vote against this.

Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers called the bill a simple improvement to Kentucky's voter ID laws.

We're trying to tighten up some of the guardrails about how we conduct business in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

I think this is a good bill.

I don't think this is a discriminatory bill.

I don't think this is a bill about voter fraud.

This happens every time we bring up some sort of voter I.D.

The minority party just thinks we're ending the world.

Well, the voter ID bill that we passed in 2020 has been working pretty well.

This will make it better.

Senate Bill 80, passed by a vote of 27 to 7 on yesterday.

It now heads to the House for consideration.

There.