Post by Logan on Apr 7, 2016 23:25:21 GMT -6
Statements about voter ID law renew controversy about GOP motivation
Two separate comments about the state's now fully operational voter ID law this week set off a tempest about why Republicans passed the law in the first place.
On election night, U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman told a Milwaukee TV reporter that Republican presidential nominee has a chance of winning Wisconsin this year partly because "photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference."
Then on Wednesday, Todd Allbaugh, a former aide to Sen. Dale Schultz and U.S. Rep. Scott Klug, wrote on Facebook that the voter ID law was "the last straw" for why he left the Republican Party.
Allbaugh described being in a closed Senate Republican Caucus during the voter ID debate and how "a handful of GOP senators were giddy about the ramifications and literally singled out the prospects of suppressing minority and college voters."
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/statements-about-voter-id-law-renew-controversy-about-gop-motivation/article_07c18932-3f9a-5f48-b747-b4cdd285490b.html
Two separate comments about the state's now fully operational voter ID law this week set off a tempest about why Republicans passed the law in the first place.
On election night, U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman told a Milwaukee TV reporter that Republican presidential nominee has a chance of winning Wisconsin this year partly because "photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference."
Then on Wednesday, Todd Allbaugh, a former aide to Sen. Dale Schultz and U.S. Rep. Scott Klug, wrote on Facebook that the voter ID law was "the last straw" for why he left the Republican Party.
Allbaugh described being in a closed Senate Republican Caucus during the voter ID debate and how "a handful of GOP senators were giddy about the ramifications and literally singled out the prospects of suppressing minority and college voters."
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/statements-about-voter-id-law-renew-controversy-about-gop-motivation/article_07c18932-3f9a-5f48-b747-b4cdd285490b.html