Sellers defends excluding student IDs to reduce possible fraud

The reference point is the state's categorical exclusion of student IDs from consideration under existing identity-verification safeguards, the rule in the April 23 directive that the district court blocked on October 2. Sellers, a cosponsor of HB 323, justifies "not allowing student IDs as valid identification cards" as a step against "a potential for voter fraud". When Sellers spoke in August, the directive applied the law as a complete bar on the cards, and the state later offered no separate justification for that bar beyond the law's own interests. We labeled it Defended or excused. Sellers does not address whether officials may consider the cards with other evidence. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, since Sellers hedges with "maybe"; it loses because the hedge qualifies the cited risk, not the support for the change.