The voter ID law does not allow people to vote with IDs issued by other states, and UW-Madison’s student IDs don’t meet the law’s criteria. UW-Madison senior Dylan Edwards was turned away from his Downtown polling place Tuesday morning because he had only a driver’s license from his home state, Pennsylvania. Like thousands of UW-Madison students, Edwards needed to get one of the university’s separate voting ID cards Tuesday morning.It took him about five minutes to wait in line and get a voting ID at an office in the Gordon Dining and Events Center, two blocks from his polling place. “It’s a little frustrating,” Edwards said of the process, before heading back to his polling place for a second attempt.
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