http://hudson-wi.patch.com/articles/couple-runs-into-difficulties-getting-voter-id-at-hudson-dmv
Like many people, John Wolfe and Rita Platt of Osceola had the day off from work on Friday, Nov. 23. They decided to make the 45-minute trip to Hudson's Department of Motor Vehicles office to obtain their driver licenses or at least an ID card needed to vote in upcoming Wisconsin elections. They left with neither, according to blogger Heidi Herron.
A WI Voices blog post tells their story. Wolfe and Platt went to the DMV with the out-of-state driver licenses they have been using since moving to Wisconsin 18 months ago. The DMV clerk told them that a certified birth certificate or a passport was needed for identification purposes, and that a social security card or pay stub would not suffice. If that weren't frustrating enough, the DMV’s computer system was down at the time, which further complicated the visit.
Both Wolfe and Platt will have to pay fees to acquire certified copies of their birth certificates (Wolfe from Virginia; Platt from California). Then they will have to make another trip to the Hudson DMV to once again attempt to file their paperwork.
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I have moved across state lines several times, and as long as I had a still-valid license from my old state, I had no problems getting a new license with only that as ID. Methinks BOTH had expired licenses, in which case their problem isn't just voting, but driving legally. Plus, every state requires you to get a new, valid license within a month or two of moving there, which these two clearly did not.
So the moral is, if they had simply followed the law for getting a new state driver's licenses after moving there, they would have no issue now having ID to vote. But somehow this new regulation is too onerous to follow, and their clearly contrived effort to make this seem difficult is just a setup for a lawsuit.