"State Rep. Ken Summers’ second attempt to require voters to show photo identification before being allowed to cast a ballot failed again this year, after a legislative committee killed his bill on a party-line vote today.

Summers, R-Lakewood, said today that his bill – House Bill 1115 – is necessary to keep ineligible people from voting and to protect the integrity of the state’s election system. But voter rights activists countered that it could disenfranchise elderly, disabled or other groups of eligible voters who have difficulty getting a photo I.D."