There are unreasonably long lines to receive a voter ID and confirm their address. This is all due to the new draconian voter ID laws.
This may be the first time the Wisconsin voter ID law has come into force.
Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.) (click here)
3.25.15
This may be the first time the Wisconsin voter ID law has come into force.
Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.) (click here)
...The G.A.B. anticipates (click here) there will be special elections in 2015 at which photo ID will be required, and we will be reaching out specifically to local election officials in those jurisdictions regarding implementation of the photo ID requirement for those special elections. The next statewide election at which photo ID will be required is the Spring Primary on February 16, 2016. If you will have a special election prior to the 2016 Spring Primary, please remember to notify us so that we can assist with issues related to photo ID as well as SVRS tasks.
If you have any questions, please contact the G.A.B. Help Desk at gabhelpdesk@wi.gov or (608) 261-2028. Thank you.
Here is a better slogan for the Wisconsin Voter ID Law, "Don't suffer in silence."
5 April 2016
Country’s strictest voter identification law (click here) faces test in first high-turnout election since it took effect as activists condemn effort to ‘suppress the vote’
Here is a better slogan for the Wisconsin Voter ID Law, "Don't suffer in silence."
5 April 2016
Country’s strictest voter identification law (click here) faces test in first high-turnout election since it took effect as activists condemn effort to ‘suppress the vote’
“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....
Anyone can see the Wisconsin STRATEGY by a hostile administration to eliminate the patience people have shown in obtaining their voter ID and then voting. Patience should not be required for voting or obtaining the voter ID. I find the voter ID issue a huge invasion of privacy. In Michigan, in Garfield County, it wasn't enough to show the driver's license, it was then run through an electronic recording device. Once that occurred there were numbers assigned to it and I never gave consent for the clerks to do that. My driver's license was examined by three different clerks when I wanted to vote. THAT IS CALLED INVASION OF PRIVACY. If the clerks were trying to validate my identity the picture they had in electronic state records was no different than the one on my license. There is a limit to the degree government should have to use my driver's license or voter ID.
If I was someone worried about government interaction with something as simple as a parking ticket I would not vote in fear of the police doing something. A parking ticket paid late is not a matter that should instill fear in voters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The voter ID is specifically a tool to oppress voter turnout.
We know the reality of Ferguson, Missouri. If the citizens of Ferguson were afraid to vote because of problems with fines, etc., they would NEVER be represented in any level of government. Voter ID is more than an issue of invasion of privacy, it is definitely punitive to isolate voters from their VOTING RIGHTS. It is definitely an issue of racism and socioeconomic as well.
If the Voter ID laws are not challenged on the basis of oppression and racism, Ferguson's reality will repeat itself even after the best work of the DOJ.
I doubt, the homeless would ever vote because of socioeconomic pressures. If that SHAME is not removed from that reality, the homeless will never have representation to their best interests.
We all know the violence that exists between government and our minority communities. Is there any wonder it exists if these socioeconomic communities are not represented in government. I am not talking about ANY available minority; I am talking about members of the minority and/or socioeconomic impoverished.
I do not want to hear a judge say, "You don't expect the homeless to run for office and win, do you?" There should be every option available for any person to achieve representation at any level of government.
Anyone can see the Wisconsin STRATEGY by a hostile administration to eliminate the patience people have shown in obtaining their voter ID and then voting. Patience should not be required for voting or obtaining the voter ID. I find the voter ID issue a huge invasion of privacy. In Michigan, in Garfield County, it wasn't enough to show the driver's license, it was then run through an electronic recording device. Once that occurred there were numbers assigned to it and I never gave consent for the clerks to do that. My driver's license was examined by three different clerks when I wanted to vote. THAT IS CALLED INVASION OF PRIVACY. If the clerks were trying to validate my identity the picture they had in electronic state records was no different than the one on my license. There is a limit to the degree government should have to use my driver's license or voter ID.
If I was someone worried about government interaction with something as simple as a parking ticket I would not vote in fear of the police doing something. A parking ticket paid late is not a matter that should instill fear in voters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The voter ID is specifically a tool to oppress voter turnout.
We know the reality of Ferguson, Missouri. If the citizens of Ferguson were afraid to vote because of problems with fines, etc., they would NEVER be represented in any level of government. Voter ID is more than an issue of invasion of privacy, it is definitely punitive to isolate voters from their VOTING RIGHTS. It is definitely an issue of racism and socioeconomic as well.
If the Voter ID laws are not challenged on the basis of oppression and racism, Ferguson's reality will repeat itself even after the best work of the DOJ.
I doubt, the homeless would ever vote because of socioeconomic pressures. If that SHAME is not removed from that reality, the homeless will never have representation to their best interests.
We all know the violence that exists between government and our minority communities. Is there any wonder it exists if these socioeconomic communities are not represented in government. I am not talking about ANY available minority; I am talking about members of the minority and/or socioeconomic impoverished.
I do not want to hear a judge say, "You don't expect the homeless to run for office and win, do you?" There should be every option available for any person to achieve representation at any level of government.
