Not done yet

What are you talking about? This bill would make it harder to cast a vote illegally. And, there are already almost no illegal votes cast in this state.

I am glad that Republicans dont like people voting, but hey, you cant win when 60% of the state votes, I can see why you would be freaked out about the rest of eligible voters actually voting.

More importantly, the Auditor's job is NOT to enforce election law. Nor is it to rewrite election law. He has clearly stepped way beyond what he is allowed by law to do, and he MIGHT have done so at the prompting of a Republican political consultant.

It's funny that Democrat Sen. Doug Berger's (not to be confused with Republican Sen. Phil Berger)support of a bill that allows people to vote after only displaying a phone bill as proof of ID, and only allowing the county boards of elections two days to verify the voter's legitimacy, is not partisan.
Rather than be thankful that the auditor raised concerns, Doug Berger attacked the legitimacy of an unelected employee.
Merritt, a Republican, elected statewide, did the right thing by alerting the ranking Democrat of a potential problem. That was the responsible thing to do.
Sen. Clodfelter, the Democrat in charge, did the right thing. Rather than move forward after being notified that a problem may exist, he scheduled a hearing to determine if progress on the bill should continue. That was the responsible thing to do.
Democrat Sen. Doug Berger injected politics into the issue by alluding to the fact that Merritt's spokesman was a past employee of the state GOP and, somehow, that makes this entire process suspect.
Maybe Doug Berger's past leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America should be called into question.

I knew when I clicked on this post that there'd be a bunch of liberal insanity in the responses. Why is it that the only partisan element that you libs see in this bill is Republican opposition? I see plenty partisanship but it's on the part of Democrats doing anything they can to allow their supporters to cast a ballot, whether those votes are made legally or illegally. Is there anything more partisan than tinkering with election laws so that your party has an advantage? No. And that's what's being done here.

P.S. - I hope you libs enjoyed getting owned.

Merritt's actions are clearly partisan. There's no other explanation for such ridiculousness.

If there were real concerns, perhaps, Mr. Merritt should've worked with the SBOE to research them, instead of sending in neophytes that know nothing of the voter registration processes.

So is it incompetence, or attempted voter suppression? Or both? Apparently, he should have taken a crash course in election law before he decided to do the bidding of the DOJ.

Les Merritt should be removed for office for all of this. Lying and conspiracy to tamper with the voter rolls for a political purpose are pretty big things.