Video reveals bank ‘activity’ a requirement for Wisconsin voter ID

[The Sushi Bandit]

This is troubling!

A Wisconsin woman recorded the process of getting her son an ID to vote. She discovered that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) could refuse to issue the constitutionally-mandated ID card if the voter’s bank account did not show enough “activity.”

The clerk couldn’t explain what would happen if a resident was homeless or unemployed.

The DMV also told her that voters would be charged $28 if they didn’t check a special box to indicate the ID was for voting, effectively making the fee a poll tax.

Watch this video, uploaded July 23, 2011
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/video-reveals-bank-activity-a-requirement-for-wisconsin-voter-id/

[sakabatou]

1. Yep, this law is unconstitutional

[saras]

2. Why is the voter's BANK ACCOUNT even accessible to the DMV in the first place?

[Denninmi]

3. What does having a bank account have to do with voting?

Poll tax indeed.

Jim Crowe lives, I guess.

[HockeyMom]

4. My daughter didn't have her own Bank Account until she was 22

out of college, had gotten a full time job, and her own apartment. Actually today, I DON'T have my own bank account. It is a joint account with my husband. I suppose I shouldn't be able to vote either then.

[Demeter]

5. Please don't give them ideas

[JohnWxy]

6. recomended!!!

[midnight]

7. Does anyone remember Attorney General Van Hollen's data base that needed to be checked first

to allow someone to vote... It was determined that not even the Attorney General of Wiscosnin would be able to vote.. These Republicans are dumber than a bag of hammers...