This screen capture excerpt, for a model plaintiff, but one of several:
Another plaintiff:
On Easter, a day not to be small and tight-minded, be generous and admit these people have a RIGHT to vote and that Walker and ALEC and Kiffmeyer in Minnesota are pursuing a course of evil aimed at the DFL, with "collateral damage" being the disenfranchised humans [some may thing corporations are people, none have been so coarse as to suggest corporations are human]. And despite blowing a lot of smoke, Kiffmeyer is doing it solely and entirely as a ploy of the Republican Party, to disadvantage the DFL in elections, and she is knowingly doing so while not being honest enough to say so, outright. Go figure.
Further links: League of Women Voters, here, here; Brennen Center, here; online 54-page complaint in Frank v. Walker, here; and ACLU Blog of Rights, here.
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| BradBlog here, linking here. |
Wisconsin hi-jinks, here and here.
Discrediting the "voter fraud" lie, with of all things actual facts, here.
Despite this frenzy of state legislation to counteract so-called voter fraud and to protect the integrity of our elections, proponents of such voter suppression legislation have failed to show that voter fraud is a problem anywhere in the country. Aside from the occasional unproven anecdote or baseless allegation, supporters of these laws simply cannot show that there is any need for them. Indeed, despite the Department of Justice’s 2002 “Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative” promising to vigorously prosecute allegations of voter fraud, the federal government obtained only 26 convictions or guilty pleas for fraud between 2002 and 2005. And other studies of voter fraud consistently find that it is exceedingly rare – a 2007 Demos study concluded that “voter fraud appears to be very rare” and a 2007 study by the Brennan Center found that “by any measure, voter fraud is extraordinarily rare.”
Further ACLU:
In Wisconsin, it takes at least 3 types of proof to get a state ID card that can be used to vote. For most people, the combination of required documents is a certified copy of a birth certificate, a Social Security Card, and some proof of residency like a utility bill or government mail. But it takes ID to get ID. And, in some cases, it takes (A) ID and/or money to (B) get the ID required to (C) get the ID you actually need to vote. This obstacle course is leaving eligible voters discouraged and disenfranchised.
Some photo ID proponents have repeatedly argued that the only people who lack photo ID are those who don’t vote anyway. False. Ruthelle, a sitting member of her village board, has voted in every election since 1948, the year in which Truman signed the Marshall Plan and NYC subway fares jumped from 5 to 10 cents. She is a longstanding participant in this democracy. And sadly, her story is in no way unique — every day, eligible voters are finding out that, under current law, they will not be able to vote in 2012 or will face numerous and significant hurdles on the road to making their voice heard. At age 84, Ruthelle is now serving as the lead plaintiff in the ACLU’s constitutional challenge to Wisconsin’s photo ID law. She’s fighting back because she believes no person should have to pay a cent or pass a bureaucracy-navigation test in order to vote. The U.S. Constitution agrees with her.
Do you want such mind-numbing stupidity to get in the way of your being able to vote this November, and in later years?
If so you are a Republican and an idiot; but I repeat myself.
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Let's take a look at the inherent gender bias in the Wisconsin law; with a specific example, bill sponsor Mary Kiffmeyer [see last sentence above]. Kiffmeyer is not her maiden name, it is a name she, in conformance with a convention others decline, changed her legal name upon marriage. In Wisconsin, she'd need a certified copy of her marriage license too, to bridge the birth certificate and other documentation not being congruent. Others having elected to change their name for other reasons of choice would need to present a certified copy of the name change order to officials to have a voting ID issued; and then, it's only something signed by some activist judge, probably a liberal, so there is motive to question further.
Add to that, have you ever had any government entity give you a free certified copy of anything? Of course not. So while the statute says Wisconsin's DMV must issue a free ID to permit voting; i.e., no direct poll tax; requiring presentation of any certified document is clearly indirectly a poll tax. Which is unconstitutional; per the 24th Amendment.
So, a poll tax, no rational basis to require a voter ID because voter fraud hand-waving is based on a total fabrication and fiction; and it is a big-time nuisance, created in the minds of Republicans wanting to one-up the Democrats; and it is in honesty, nothing else. So, back to that last sentence of the above most prior update. Stupidity raised to an art form.
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ACLU's 79-page amended complaint in Frank v. Walker is online at this link.