House passes Senate bill prohibiting use of foreign national IDs to vote
May 07, 2025 | 7:26 pm ET
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Rep. Allen Treadaway, R-Morris, speaks in the Alabama House of Representatives on May 8, 2024 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery. The House passed a bill Treadaway carried that prohibits the use of foreign national IDs in Alabama elections. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)
The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that prohibits the use of foreign national ID or drivers license to vote in Alabama elections.
SB 158, sponsored by Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Pike Road, is the companion bill to HB 480, sponsored by Rep. Allen Treadaway, R-Morris, which passed the House on April 16.
People from foreign countries with legal status in the country may apply for driver’s licenses or IDs from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency but are not authorized to vote.
House Democrats criticized Treadaway’s bill as unnecessary. “Our citizens might think that there’s a problem with foreign nationalists using any form of ID they might have gotten from this country to register to vote,” said Rep. Mary Moore, D-Birmingham. “But we don’t even have enough documentation to show where a foreign national would even try to register, let alone vote in the United States.”
The bill passed 82-13. It goes to Gov. Kay Ivey.
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