Sept. 2, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Evan Lips, communications director
617-523-5005 ext. 245
WOBURN -- An initiative petition to bring a voter identification requirement to Massachusetts has been certified by the attorney general, and now comes the work: obtaining more than 80,000 signatures from registered voters by mid-November to ensure that the measure secures a place on the 2022 election ballot.
Tatyana Semyrog, chairwoman of the Committee to Bring Voter ID to Massachusetts, said a series of organizing workshops held in August and led by Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons have given voter ID proponents a boost.
"Polls show Americans overwhelmingly support voter identification requirements,
and we're confident that safeguarding our elections against fraud and abuse is an issue that a large majority of Massachusetts voters care about," Semyrog said Thursday. "Since the Democrat-dominated state Legislature will never address this matter, we've decided to bring it straight to the people."
Semyrog added that her committee has already managed to recruit almost 4,000 volunteers across Massachusetts who will begin collecting certified signatures from registered voters next week.
"Voting should be easy and cheating should be hard, this proposal is a commonsense way to ensure election integrity," Semyrog said.
