# Voter ID constitutional amendment *A 2012 proposed amendment to the constitution of Minnesota on voter identification, passed by the Legislature and rejected by voters.* The **Voter ID constitutional amendment** was a 2012 proposal to amend the constitution of [[Minnesota]] on voter identification. According to the at-issue record, it "passed the Legislature as Chapter 167 and was rejected by the voters that November."[^1] The same record names [[Mary Kiffmeyer]], a former Secretary of State and legislator from [[Big Lake]], Sherburne County, as the proposal's lead House author.[^1] The at-issue record pairs this item with a March 2025 White House presidential action as its anchor. It describes the connection as "the verification argument's Minnesota author, and her address."[^2] ## Who Mary Kiffmeyer was Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007. She then served in the House and spent eight years in the Senate, where she became President Pro Tempore. The at-issue record identifies her as the lead House author of the 2012 Voter ID constitutional amendment.[^1] The record does not state the party affiliation of the author or of the legislators who voted for the measure, and it names no co-authors.[^1] ## What The [[Legislature]] passed the amendment as [[Chapter 167]] and placed it before the voters, who rejected it.[^1] The record does not include the amendment's text, the legislative roll calls, or the statewide vote totals.[^1] ## When The Legislature passed the amendment in 2012, and voters rejected it in November of that year.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The amendment appears in one at-issue item, AI-Sherburne-056, which ranks 56th in section *II. The Two Offices (31–60)* of the Sherburne Politics Brief. The item lists two record sources from the domains lrl.mn.gov and revisor.mn.gov.[^1] Its anchor is a March 2025 White House presidential action. The record links the amendment's author to that action as the anchor of the "verification argument".[^2] The record available here does not show what the presidential action says or how it bears on the 2012 amendment.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Sherburne Politics Brief, at-issue item AI-Sherburne-056, *II. The Two Offices (31–60)* (rank 56; year 1999) — states that Mary Kiffmeyer was Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007, then served in the House and eight years in the Senate, becoming President Pro Tempore, and that she was lead House author of the 2012 Voter ID constitutional amendment, which passed the Legislature as Chapter 167 and was rejected by voters that November. The item lists its record sources only by domain (lrl.mn.gov; revisor.mn.gov). The URL attached to the item is its White House anchor, which does not by itself establish these Minnesota facts. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: The White House, presidential action (March 2025) — the anchor the at-issue record assigns to item AI-Sherburne-056, described there as "the verification argument's Minnesota author, and her address". This note is cited only for that pairing. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/