If you want to cast your ballot, it won't require a picture ID, at least for now.
"Our citizens want to have free and fair and easy access to the ballot box and that's on both sides," Senator Ian Conyers said.
Democrats are celebrating because the senate tabled bills that would have created stricter voter ID laws.
A decision that came down to timing -- with the press secretary for Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof telling me they wanted more discussion on the bills.
"It ought to be tabled,” Senator Conyers said. “It ought to be tabled across our country."
The republican-backed bills would've required voters to show a picture ID for their vote to count. Ending the current system where voters can sign an affidavit if they forgot or don't have ID.
"We're very pleased that Senator Meekhof in his wisdom said that they're not going to bring it up,” Reverend Wendell Anthony with NAACP said. “They're not going to deal with it. And we hope they eliminate it totally."
Although it's off the table this year, republicans are going to keep fighting for this bill next year:
“We want integrity,” Senator Rick Jones said. “We don't want somebody to go vote in several precincts. We want them to show their id and vote once"
Senator Rick Jones calls the bill an important step towards adding oversight in our elections and preventing fraud.
And he thinks the bills will have enough support to pass.
"I think they tabled it because leadership in the house and the senate are working on many things and I don't know if they're ready to move this yet," Senator Jones said.
Democrats in the meantime are cautiously optimistic those plans will fall through.
"We're hoping this is the last of this," Senator Conyers said.
