And that is not sufficient to get a WI ID card? The article says 'they'.
It isn't hard to get a notarized copy of your birth certificate mailed to you.
That's just to illustrate how relatively recent hospital deliveries really are. Mom needed a Pennsylvania ID card to get reduced rates on a senior taxi so she wouldn't be 100% dependent on me for transportation. We found out what documents she needed to get the state issued ID card before I drove her in there.
It isn't rocket science. If I can do it for my 89 year old mother, a 42 year old school librarian and her boyfriend should be able to figure it out.
“It isn’t hard to get a notarized copy of your birth certificate mailed to you.”
It is if you’re an illegal alien!