I think you drastically misinterpreted my tone . My intent certainly isn ' t to lecture you or assume your circumstances . It also wasn ' t to talk down to you like the wall of condescension you just threw my way . I ' m not against you . Chill , friend . But , yes , 301 , 700 citizens lost their ability to vote overnight until they jumped through some unnecessary hoops . You ' re right it can be a tremendous pain in the ass to get an ID . That ' s part of the problem . The other is that there is no electoral reason to make them do it . Requiring an ID here isn ' t safeguarding our elections . Wisconsin doesn ' t have a voter fraud problem as we will see yet again from this audit . It is an unnecessary hurdle brought by folks who didn ' t contact the disenfranchised from the list they had , didn ' t fulfill the educational campaign their own legislation required , were giddy about the effects on college campuses and Milwaukee neighborhoods , and outright said it would help them win elections . Please , please notice the absolute lack of decency and democraticthVoterID in Wisconsin has resulted in a net loss for democracy . So , I ask you again why implement VoterID when it doesn ' t address an actual problem , causes hardship for hundreds of thousands , and is costing my state millions ? What data makes this a good idea ?