Update on photo ID Law:The ultimate Catch-22: To get a photo ID card to vote, you need -- a photo ID

[midnight]

So you need a photo ID to be able to vote to recall Scott Walker, or to be able to vote in the spring elections for local offices and judges?

Better start now, because the odds stacked heavily are against you.

It turns out that what you may need to get a photo ID in Wisconsin is -- ready for this? -- a photo ID.

Here's the Government Accountability Board's list of what is acceptable ID at the polls under the new law:

•A Wisconsin DoT-issued driver license
•A Wisconsin DoT-issued identification card

•An identification card issued by a U.S. uniformed service

• A U.S. passport

•An unexpired identification card receipt issued by Wisconsin DoT.

•An identification card issued by a federally recognized Indian tribe in Wisconsin

Read more »

http://uppitywis.org/


The ruling on the voter ID law cannot come soon enough....

[Scuba]

1. If only the Federal government had a sort of "justice department" that could investigate. n/t

[midnight]

2. Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin has asked for such a thing... Did you hear any feedback

from the DOJ about this?

[Scuba]

3. No, I think Holder's too busy busting state-licensed MMJ growers. n/t

[midnight]

5. So we have to survive a source code written by GOP and not

supervised by any independent agency such as GAB.... Voter I.D.suppression unless the League of Wisconsin voters succeed in their lawsuite... and the corporate money from the Koch brothers... Gee we really could of used the help of the DOJ... I wish they were not so busy with the MMJ growers.... So we are counting on the league of women voters to help us balance this abuse of power....

[alterfurz]

4. another corollary of this catch-all Catch-22 variant

"They are allowed to do anything to us that we can't stop them from doing."

[midnight]

6. It seems so via the DOA the second in command to Scott Walker....

He is the twin pea pod to Walker... Both ALEC members and Koch heads and they are blocking the rule of law from working for the 99 percent....

[jeff47]

7. I was thinking about photo IDs the other day

And realized that all of my photo IDs trace back to a piece of paper I signed when I got my first driver's license. At 16.

So all this stuff "proving" who I am is based on me making a promise while I was still a minor.

Kinda makes these photo IDs not seem all that secure.