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To: TobagoJack who wrote (122417)	10/2/2016 3:03:10 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 219484

not sure of what point you were trying to make, seems a bit of a word salad meanwhile, the evidence speaks for itself Madison, WI— Zack Moore, a 34-year-old African-American man, moved from Chicago to Madison last year. On September 22, he went to the DMV to get a photo ID for voting, as required by Wisconsin’s strict voter-ID law. He brought his Illinois photo ID, Social Security card, and a pay stub for proof of residence. But he didn’t have a copy of his birth certificate, which had been misplaced by his sister in Illinois, so the DMV wouldn’t give him an ID for voting. “I’m trying to get a Wisconsin ID so I can vote,” Moore told the DMV. “I don’t have my birth certificate, but I got everything else.” Under Wisconsin law, the DMV should’ve given Moore a credential he could use for voting within six business days. But that never happened. They told him to “drive down there [to Illinois] and get [a birth certificate] and come back.” That would cost Moore money he didn’t have. If he entered what the state calls the ID Petition Process (IDPP), it would take six to eight weeks for him to get a voter ID and he most likely wouldn’t be able to vote by Election Day. ... It appears that Wisconsin is violating multiple court orders by not promptly giving eligible citizens free IDs or certificates for voting. This is particularly concerning, since early voting began this week in cities like Madison and Milwaukee and thousands of Wisconsinites are casting ballots. ...In a legal filing on September 22, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel cited a press release from the Department of Transportation stating, “DMV will now be issuing photo identification receipts no later than six business days from receipt of the petition application.” The Wisconsin Election Commissions issued a similar press release saying, “Free Photo ID for Voting Now Available with One Trip to DMV.” The Wisconsin attorney general said, “DMV is carefully administering the process to ensure that anyone who is eligible for the IDPP will have a valid ID for the November general election.” But recordings from the DMV clearly show this is not the case. Molly McGrath, the national campaign coordinate for VoteRiders, which helps people get voter IDs, accompanied Moore to the DMV and recorded the trip. Read this exchange between her and DMV employees: Molly: If you initiate the petition process do you get an ID for voting? DMV Employee 1: No, you don’t get anything. DMV Employee 2: No, you don’t get anything right away. Molly: Ok, so even if we start the petition process, and it takes eight weeks, he wouldn’t be able to vote. DMV Employee 1: Right, right, right. DMV Employee 2: Well, I don’t know, they’re working on that. It’s kind of up in the air right now. …Molly: I thought you could get an ID, like the sign says over there: “No birth certificate, no problem.” You can get an ID to vote. DMV Employee 3: You can. It just takes the time. Molly: So even if we just start the petition process, he wouldn’t get anything temporarily that says you can vote? DMV Employee 3: Nope. Nope. This is not just a problem in Madison. A volunteer for VoteRiders traveled to 10 other DMVs across the state to see what would happen to a voter who did not have a birth certificate and wanted to get an ID to vote. DMVs told her “it’s going to take quite a while” to get the credentials needed to vote and “it’s hard to predict” when that would be. Several suggested she get a birth certificate on her own. One said it would be “easier for everyone” to have her purchase a birth certificate from her home state than it would be to use the petition process to get an ID to vote. Most DMVs did not have IDPP forms readily available, but needed to hunt for them online, in a file drawer, or in a different part of the room. Overall, only three of 10 DMVs assured her that she would get an ID to vote in a week or less, as state law requires. thenation.com