Of course, a bill to require photo ID at the polls isn?t aimed at disenfranchising demographically Republican voters like me. It?s aimed at voters like 22-year-old Andrew Flowers, a UW-Madison senior from Denver, Colo.Flowers has voted in two elections while living in Madison. To register, he needed nothing more than a piece of mail to verify his address, he said. But under the bill, Flowers would almost certainly need a Wisconsin photo ID, something that itself would require his certified birth certificate and Social Security card and a trip to the DMV. Would Flowers be likely to go through all that just to vote? “If I had to go wait in the DMV line, no,” he said.
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