There is plenty of proof of voter registration fraud and attempted voter registration fraud, that is good enough for me. BTW, no one has listed any of the names of these people that cannot afford an ID, are you people just assuming they can't afford it?
Ruthelle Frank is an 84-year-old resident of Brokaw,
Wisconsin, where she has served on the Village Board since 1996. She is an
eligible voter registered to vote in Wisconsin. She has no accepted form of
photo ID under the photo ID law and lacks a certified copy of her birth
certificate, which she needs to prove citizenship to the Wisconsin DMV. Ms.
Frank was born at her home in Brokaw in 1927. Though she has never had a birth
certificate in her possession, the state Register of Deeds has a record of her
birth and can produce a certified copy of her birth certificate, but at a cost.
The record on file, however, has an incorrect spelling of her maiden name:
Wedepohl, and is consequently an unacceptable form of identification. The
process to correct the birth certificate is lengthy and costly, with some
reports suggesting it might require $200 or more. She has voted in every
election since 1948 and intends to vote in Wisconsin again next year.
Carl Ellis is a 52-year-old resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
and an eligible voter. A veteran of the United States Army, Mr. Ellis is
currently living in a homeless shelter for veterans and has no income or
savings. Mr. Ellis has no accepted form of photo ID under the photo ID law and
lacks a certified copy of his birth certificate from the Illinois Department of
Public Health's Vital Records Office. Given his financial circumstances, Mr.
Ellis cannot afford to pay for a certified copy of his Illinois birth
certificate. He does, however, possess a Veterans Identification Card, which is
issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and contains his name and
photograph. Under the new law, however, the state of Wisconsin will not accept
his Veterans ID card as an acceptable form of identification in order to vote.
He intends to vote in Wisconsin next year.
Barbara Oden is a 57-year-old resident of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and an eligible voter. Ms. Oden has no accepted form of photo ID under
Wisconsin's new photo ID law, and does not have a certified copy of her birth
certificate and a Social Security Card. She needs these documents to prove
citizenship and identity to the Wisconsin DMV in order to obtain a free state ID
card. She was denied a Social Security Card by an employee at the Social
Security Administration office, who informed her that she must present a photo
ID in order to obtain a Social Security Card.
The ACLU's lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's voter ID law has
been amended to include charges that the law illegally blocks minorities and
veterans from accessing the ballot box. The filing today supplements a federal
challenge against one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation and on
behalf of a broad spectrum of plaintiffs, including White, Black and Latino
voters, homeless and low-income citizens, veterans and students.
The
amended complaint charges the voter ID law:
Violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans the use of voting
practices that have a disparate negative impact on racial and language
minorities. Research commissioned by the ACLU indicates the law has a
disproportionate impact on Black and Latino voters, who are more likely to lack
photo ID accepted for voting in Wisconsin.
Arbitrarily prevents veterans who only have a Veterans Administration ID
card from voting. Wisconsin deems such identification unacceptable.
Violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because
Wisconsin's photo ID law results in the arbitrary treatment of voters trying to
get a state ID card.
Eddie Lee Holloway Jr.'s birth certificate says Eddie Junior Holloway
and as a result he is no longer able to vote in the state of Wisconsin. DMV
employees tell him that his birth certificate is an unacceptable form of ID
because the name on it reads "Eddie
Junior Holloway," due
to a decades-old clerical error. It doesn't matter to the DMV that his father's
name "Eddie Lee Holloway" is printed on his birth certificate, and that
Eddie has a Social Security Card and an expired Illinois photo ID both bearing
the name "Eddie L Holloway Jr". Eddie says, "I never miss voting" and has rarely
missed a chance to cast a ballot since he was 18. He worked in Illinois for
years as a cook at the airport and Claire's Family Restaurant, and he cooked in
nursing homes too. Years of heavy lifting and hard work left him severely
disabled, unemployed, and homeless in that order. He now lives with his mother
in Milwaukee but cannot secure the disability benefits and medical attention he
so badly needs due to a lack of photo ID.
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