Is it me, or has there just generally been less anguish on DU about problems voting in WI?

[Half-Century Man]

23. Ah, I'm on the ground in Wisconsin.

Locally, there was a lot of talk about ID's and stories of people being dropped from voter rolls. "myvote.wi.gov&quot state run registration info site) crashed three times in two days due to heavy traffic.

On DU and from the Sanders campaign ground teams; we were urged to keep checking our status and be on the look out for voting...irregularities. How to document them and where to report them. Local media also mentioned this but much more sparingly.

We have an open primary, so Indies can vote for R or D as they want. No drops of recent Democrats.
We didn't have the mass closing of polling places like in AZ. We did have polling places moved from closed governmental buildings to other locations (mine when from a closed Elementary school to a church).
Due to a couple of effective lawsuits, ID for voting is free. If you can get to the DMV with proper proof. Wanker closed or cut back hours of DMV offices across the state to "save money", but that was months ago, and we have adapted.


I think part of the reason the similar voting countermeasures in both WI and AZ had such dissimilar results is due to the massive backlash in AZ. People were prepared for it, so it was throttled back.