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Wisconsin voter ID law leaves state braced for primary day chaos [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Wisconsin voter ID law leaves state braced for primary day chaos
Country’s strictest voter identification law faces test in first high-turnout
election since it took effect as activists condemn effort to ‘suppress the vote’
Megan Carpentier in Milwaukee
Tuesday 5 April 2016 17.11 BST
“Arizona is going to have been a piece of cake” compared with Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin, said Arvina Martin, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and chair of the Democratic party of Wisconsin’s American Indian caucus.
She was comparing the potential effects of Wisconsin’s strictest-in-the-nation voter identification law to the five-hour waits to vote during last month’s Arizona primary. (The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that it would investigate the problems in Arizona, which occurred when Maricopa County reduced the number of polling places from 200 in 2012 to 60 in 2016.)
Tuesday’s state primary in Wisconsin – which is also a general election for state and local judicial candidates – will be the first high-turnout election here since the law went into effect. The state’s government accountability board estimates that about 40% of the state’s eligible voters will go to the polls, which would be the highest turnout in a primary since 1980.
Advocates for and against the law agree that approximately 300,000 eligible voters lack eligible photo IDs – in part because, as a staffer for the voter ID bill’s lead sponsor, state representative Jeff Stone, told the Racine Journal Times in 2012: “When the bill was being drafted, we were trying to limit the number [of eligible forms of identification], not expand it.”
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Country’s strictest voter identification law faces test in first high-turnout
election since it took effect as activists condemn effort to ‘suppress the vote’
Megan Carpentier in Milwaukee
Tuesday 5 April 2016 17.11 BST
“Arizona is going to have been a piece of cake” compared with Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin, said Arvina Martin, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and chair of the Democratic party of Wisconsin’s American Indian caucus.
She was comparing the potential effects of Wisconsin’s strictest-in-the-nation voter identification law to the five-hour waits to vote during last month’s Arizona primary. (The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that it would investigate the problems in Arizona, which occurred when Maricopa County reduced the number of polling places from 200 in 2012 to 60 in 2016.)
Tuesday’s state primary in Wisconsin – which is also a general election for state and local judicial candidates – will be the first high-turnout election here since the law went into effect. The state’s government accountability board estimates that about 40% of the state’s eligible voters will go to the polls, which would be the highest turnout in a primary since 1980.
Advocates for and against the law agree that approximately 300,000 eligible voters lack eligible photo IDs – in part because, as a staffer for the voter ID bill’s lead sponsor, state representative Jeff Stone, told the Racine Journal Times in 2012: “When the bill was being drafted, we were trying to limit the number [of eligible forms of identification], not expand it.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/05/wisconsin-primary-voter-id-law-leaves-state-braced-for-chaos
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