Just a week after the Ohio Senate approved a bill to eliminate the four-day grace period for accepting mail-in ballots, a Republican in the House has introduced a bill that would require absentee voters to present a copy of their photo identification when returning their voted ballots.

Rep. Ron Ferguson (R-Wintersville) said House Bill 577 would make mail-in absentee voting more secure.

“In Ohio, it’s already the law that when you vote in person, you need to show that photo ID," Ferguson said in an interview. "This is just to ensure that we do the same thing for mail-in ballots so that we can be assured that the person who is casting that ballot is indeed the person that is supposed to be casting that ballot.”

Ferguson said this change would be easy for voters to comply with: “Most of

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