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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
and guess what... you actually CAN use your student ID to vote in Wisconsin, according to the new law. As long as the ID has not expired and you have to prove you are currently enrolled.
Who would have thought?
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You mean except that there's more than what you said: the
ID's don't have expiration dates or proof of current enrollment on them? and don't meet all the requirements of the current bill as signed today?
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http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/ar...?article=33379
Most significantly, the Assembly version would include university-issued student identification cards as an acceptable form of ID.
But there's a catch: the student IDs must include a current address, birth date, signature and expiration date -- requirements no college or university in Wisconsin currently meets.
"A lot of changes in this version are really steps in the wrong direction," says David Canon, a UW-Madison political science professor and election law expert.
According to Canon, the requirement of a current address for student IDs is "more onerous" than those for other IDs, like military identification, and creates a kind of double standard.
"If [bill author Rep. Stone's] stated purpose is to make driver's licenses and student IDs equivalent, he needs to makes them equivalent," says Canon. "It's not the same standard and it's a very significant difference between the two."
Additionally, Canon notes that UW campus IDs serve as room keys, making the rule that they contain an updated address dangerous, in terms of student security. And universities would have to bear the cost of issuing updated ID cards to students, which he says they are ill-equipped to handle.
Samuel Polstein, a UW-Madison student council member and a leader of student efforts opposing the bill, is also dissatisfied with the requirement.
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Students will have to bring receipt as
proof of paid tuition for the semester with them to the polling place.
Hey, nice! Have fun trying to vote in Wisconsin, students! Good luck with that. Thank the Republican party! We know most students vote Democratic for reasons exactly like this - too bad the Republicans made it so you can't vote! And that's why.