Kentucky Officials Discuss Voter IDs

The public's fear of voter fraud has led more states in the past 10 years to require photo identification of voters, a national expert testified before state legislators Tuesday. Whether Kentucky should require a photo ID at the polls has become a campaign issue in the Kentucky secretary of state race and has been pondered by lawmakers. Voter ID laws have spread across the country in the past 10 years more rapidly than most election issues, said Jennie Bowser, a senior fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures, who spoke Tuesday before the legislative Interim Joint Task Force on Elections.