Just a few of the people Walker et al. want to keep out of the polling booth. (Justin Ormont, Wikimedia Commons)
Via
Think Progress, Wisconsin's new voter ID law led to
a failed test run in a mock election in Madison this week.
After a test run in Madison of the new state voter ID law led to lines so long some voters abandoned the effort, the city's clerk is encouraging other municipalities to do tests of their own.
Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl told The Post-Crescent the same issues that arose during their mock election Tuesday would come up across the state during the spring primaries on Feb. 21. The primaries will be the first time Wisconsin voters are required to show photo identification and sign a poll book before casting their ballot.[...]
Witzel-Behl said people who monitored the recall election in eastern Wisconsin recorded that voters took two minutes to sign the poll book — a timeframe Witzel-Behl called "very alarming." If there were 15 people in line, voters would wait a half-hour.
Of course, long lines and people walking away from the polls without voting is a feature, not a bug, in the Republican plan. This law, addressing the non-existent problem of voter fraud, will cost the state as much as $7.5 million to implement.