They keep pulling this crap in Wisconsin. Voter registration drives that do not follow the rules for verifying ID at the time of registration.
This is B.S. telling people to bring ID to the polls...its supposed to be done by deputized registrants at the time of registration. Wisconsin is very lax with what constitutes ID also. I suspect this is going to lead to widespread vote fraud in Wisconsin.
I left this New Voters Project leader a message.I want to have a little talk with him.
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Official wasn’t present to verify information during in-class registration
By Alex Hummel
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers
OSHKOSH — City clerks are urging the more than 3,000 new voters a project registered at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to bring forms of identification on election day.
A call from the concerned mother of a newly registered UWO student alerted the city’s clerk to a potential misfire by the New Voters Project’s in-class registration tactics.
New Voters passed out and had many UWO students fill out their own registration forms — technically a no-no, since no official registration “deputy” was at that student’s side to verify they were who they were stating they were, Oshkosh City Clerk Pam Ubrig said.
“They were supposed to look at the information,” said Ubrig, whose staff is now doing whatever they can to remind UWO’s new voters to bring ID to the polls on Nov. 2.
The close-call 2000 presidential election and concerns of voter fraud around the United States have made election overseers hypersensitive to the technical process of registration.
New Voters Project’s efforts were to make voting on Nov. 2 as easy as possible for first-timers. The national organization planted a detachment at UWO earlier this year and since reached its target: 3,223 new voters registered.
The point was to help make voting as easy as possible for a new voter. He or she, after New Voters’ registration assistance, was supposed to be able to show up at the polls on Nov. 2, disclose his or her name to a polling-place volunteer, get a ballot and vote.
Polling place volunteers will now have to require on-site ID checks, Ubrig said.
Registration misstep aside, she has previously lauded New Voters for its meticulous efforts.
Andy Robinson, New Voters Oshkosh coordinator, said the State Elections Board — a co-sponsor of the non-partisan project — was aware of the in-class strategy.
Robinson said he and other New Voters workers have been instructing students to bring their ID’s to the polls.
“That’s something we’ve done since we started registration since February,” Robinson said.
He said other groups dangling money and other perks to entice young potential voters to sign up have marred good-intentioned drives around the country.
“It comes from these other groups out there who are paying for individuals’ registrations and almost encouraging a situation for (fraud) to happen,” he said. “We’re trying to enfranchise voters. If we were to do anything that would lead to them being disenfranchised on their first voting experience, it could potentially ruin a lifetime voter.”
Robinson estimated that about a quarter of the 3,223 registrants his organization signed up to vote live off UWO’s campus. The rest are dorm-dwellers.
All along, the voters all been reminded to each bring his or her ID on election day, Robinson stressed.
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