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Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Is Back In Court Following Election Day Woes | ThinkProgress
Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Is Back in Court Following Election Day Woes
“In Tuesday’s primary election, Wisconsin saw its highest voter turnout in decades, leading Gov. Scott Walker (R) to boast that it’s “easy to vote” in his state. But many voters were burdened or disenfranchised by the state’s newly-implemented and poorly publicized voter ID law, which disproportionately impacts the state’s low-income voters of color.
On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union argued before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that people who face significant hardships should be able to vote without an ID. As in New Hampshire, Idaho, Texas, and several other states, such voters would be able to sign a legally-binding affidavit to prove their identity.
This accommodation could help voters like Dennis Hatten, a formerly homeless Marine Corps veteran who spent six months fighting with the DMV to obtain a voter ID……
…….“Wisconsin’s law remains the harshest in the country and continues to be a threat to our democracy,” Young told ThinkProgress. “Voters, especially from impoverished backgrounds, must be able to exercise the franchise.”
Young said many low-income, homeless, or recently-relocated voters who don’t have access to their birth certificates have to go through an “absurd exercise.”
“Going to the DMV multiple times, tracking down ancient school records and baptismal certificates, then going back to the DMV hat in hand and hoping the employee deems them acceptable. The DMV workers have total discretion to reject them,” he said. “We haven’t had the right to vote depend on the whims of an individual bureaucrat since the days of the Jim Crow literacy test.” ……….
Now the state is being sued………… and the court will more than likely void the law as unconstitutional…………
When you cannot win an election unless you keep folks from voting……… and do it with a straight face as its OK to do………….That’s about as low as yall can go…..
