Wisconsin
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AP: In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters
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In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters
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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and IVAN MORENO
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MILWAUKEE (AP) State Sen. Mary Lazich was adamant: The bill Republicans were about to push through the Wisconsin state Senate, requiring that voters present identification at the polls, would do no harm.
Not a single voter in this state will be disenfranchised by the ID law, Lazich promised.
Five years later, in the first presidential election held under the new law, Gladys Harris proved her wrong.
By one estimate, 300,000 eligible voters in the state lacked valid photo IDs heading into the election; it is unknown how many people did not vote because they didnt have proper identification. But it is not hard to find the Navy veteran whose out-of-state drivers license did not suffice, or the dying woman whose license had expired, or the recent graduate whose student ID was deficient or Harris, who at 66 made her way to her polling place despite chronic lung disease and a torn ligament in her knee.
She had lost her drivers license just before Election Day. Aware of the new law, she brought her Social Security and Medicare cards as well as a county-issued bus pass that displayed her photo.
Not good enough. She had to cast a provisional ballot that ended up not being counted............................................
mopinko
(69,806 posts)the tale of voter suppression is clearly laid out right there, in plain sight, and yet our party just lets it lie.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)The voter in question could theoretically have gone to the DMV on Wednesday after the election to get a new license and would have been given a receipt bearing her photo (valid while waiting for the actual license to come in the mail). That would have been sufficient to get her ballot counted if she brought it to the municipal clerk's office by Friday. In real life she might be unable to get a ride to the DMV or clerk's office, might have been too ill, might live in a location where the DMV isn't open at all that week (there are some like that in Wisconsin).
The law that allows all this disenfranchisement was passed when the Republicans had taken over the governor's office, the gerrymandered legislature, and the state Supreme Court. We need to get control back before this can change.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)and why.
we dems should be on that, but we arent.