Wisconsin's Voter ID Law

Read more about WI Voter ID with informative links on Heidi Heron's blog, WI Voices. http://wivoices.wordpress.com/

Now that photo ID's are required for voting in Wisconsin, Jennifer "Rita" Platt and John Wolfe drove 45 minutes from Osceola to the nearest Dept. of Motor Vehicles office in Hudson, only to be turned away. Governor Walker and state Republicans recently passed the "Voter Photo ID Law", or Act 23, which has many Wisconsinites scrambling. Rita and John brought social security cards, current pay stubs, and driver's licenses from Iowa, but it wasn't enough. They need to pay for certified birth certificates, and wait for them to arrive in the mail, in order to secure a free Wisconsin ID card issued for voting. To complicate matters further for the couple, the computers at the DMV were down and unable to process their request.

Here's their story.

Read more about WI Voter ID with informative links on Heidi Heron's blog, WI Voices. http://wivoices.wordpress.com/

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[DillonDee1]

Some of these laws are clearly intended for voter suppression - as the Wisc law is.

[222Cassie333]

Heroic people struggling to vote in Wisconsin. Let's hope they don't also get ensnared in Walker's repeal of the right to assemble.