Word is beginning to spread in the Nutmeg State that some state senators, perhaps emboldened from the Supreme Court's recent ruling, have proposed amending a bill to require photo ID requirements for voting in Connecticut. Seeing is believing... check out the proposed amendment.

No doubt, the amendment's proponents will cite the recent story that documented incidents of voters who are no longer living casting ballots. However, those incidents have more to do with local election officials not doing their jobs by recanvassing registered voters than it does deliberate voter fraud.

This has happened before. Last year, when the Connecticut General Assembly was poised to pass legislation that would permit primary day voter registration, the same kind of amendment was floated.  It was never called. Let's hope this year's amendment shares the same fate.