I am writing in support of requiring identification when voting.

A few years back, in my small town of Durham, I went to vote … and my name had already been checked off. I had not been to the polls yet, nor had I filled out an absentee ballot. I happened to know there was another woman in town at the time with the same name. I suggested that perhaps they had accidentally checked my name off instead of hers when she came in. The woman at the desk thought that maybe that is what happened. So, they let me vote and checked off her name. That was certainly not the way to do things.

Requiring voter ID would have eliminated that mistake. I could have (and probably should have) been denied my right to vote.

Vote “Yes” on Question 1 to safeguard Maine’s elections.

Carol Levesque
Durham