Sauder leads charge for election integrity

By Becky Uehling

Grant Tribune-Sentinel

Melissa Sauder of Grant gave testimony on Wednesday, March 1 during a session of the Legislature’s Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, on two of three bills that have been proposed to shape the state’s Voter ID Law. Sauder was instrumental in helping to write LB 228 and 230, both sponsored by State Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard. 

LB 228 and 230 would require ballots to be cast in person and would end mail-in voting, except for military personnel and nursing home residents. 

Sauder will testify this Wednesday, March 22 on three more Election Integrity bills she also had a hand in writing. These include LB 193, 457 and 808. Each of the bills has been sponsored by Sen. Steve Halloran. 

LB 193 would establish requirements that voting systems in Nebraska be made in the United States, LB 457 would require video surveillance of voting and provide anti-tampering and anti-counterfeiting requirements for paper ballots, vote scanning devises and vote tabulating equipment. LB 808 would also permit election commissioners and county clerks to use hand counts or machine counts for elections and recounts. It also would allow candidates to require a hand count of ballots of the election results if they fall within the margin authorizing them to request an official recount of the election results.