Study Finds Republican Voter Suppression Is Even More Effective Than You Think

[Gothmog]

9. In Texas, the Sec of State spent $2 million to educate people

That was a drop in the bucket. Wisconsin has not spent much either to educate people about their new law http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/state-s-low-key-educational-effort-on-new-voter-id/article_c8b9b94e-c0ee-5ec4-a832-0a9acfce946a.html

lThe state elections board has created a website, bringit.wisconsin.gov, to inform the public about voter ID. It also has crafted public service announcements that TV and radio stations may run, and has a staffer conducting voter ID presentations to advocacy groups that work with voters.

But the state elections board, the Government Accountability Board, has no funds available for advertising about the new requirement, according to its spokesman, Reid Magney.

Larry Dupuis is legal director of ACLU of Wisconsin, one of the groups that has challenged the voter ID law in court. Now that it’s clear the law will go into effect, Dupuis said he and other groups fear too many voters will be uninformed when they head to the polls.

“We are worried that there’s not a sufficiently robust effort at public education because there’s not the money for it,” Dupuis said.

Other states that implemented voter ID in recent years launched paid media campaigns to educate voters. Pennsylvania spent $5 million on an ad campaign, Alabama ran print ads and Mississippi won advertising awards for its voter ID spots. Wendy Underhill, an elections expert with the National Conference of State Legislatures, said Kansas ran billboards with the slogan: “Got Voter ID?”

The GOP does not want people to know about these laws because the GOP wants to suppress the vote