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Showing posts with label AB 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AB 7. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2011

JFC Monday Voter ID - Wisconsin Voter ID Bill 2011 $5.7M

JFC on Voter ID AB 7 ... A cost of $5.7M has been circulated!  Is this one time or recurring?  Does it include the costs to individuals in their time and transportation in order to comply!

If you can't be there - http://www.wiseye.org/

Joint Committee on Finance LIVE on WisEye at 2pm. They will vote on voter identification legislation. Watch on Charter 995 or wiseye.org.

From LFB (21 page analysis) -

AB 7 - Requiring Voter Identification in Order to Vote (5/9/11) includes LRB memo

Easy Email Access at bottom!

From the Calendar -


EXECUTIVE SESSION
Joint Committee on Finance

The committee will hold an executive session on the following items at the time specified below:
Monday, May 9, 2011
2:00 PM
412 East
Assembly Bill 48
Relating to: information about land acquired with stewardship funding.
By Representatives J. Ott, Mursau, Stone, Ballweg, Pridemore, Kestell, LeMahieu, Williams, Bies, Brooks, Strachota, Petersen, Tiffany, Kerkman, Rivard, Steineke, Nerison and Kaufert; cosponsored by Senators Kedzie, Moulton, Harsdorf, Galloway and Schultz.
Assembly Bill 7
Relating to: requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Stone, Tauchen, Honadel, J. Ott, Vos, Pridemore, Bernier, LeMahieu, August, Spanbauer, Kramer, Petersen, Ziegelbauer, Kestell, Ripp, Van Roy, Kerkman, Jacque, Litjens, Nass, Kaufert, Strachota, Steineke, Kapenga, Krug, Farrow, Knodl, Kleefisch, Kooyenga, Ballweg, Endsley, Rivard, Thiesfeldt, A. Ott, Petryk, Williams, Severson, Wynn, Knudson, Kuglitsch, Petrowski, Nygren, Meyer, Tiffany, Bies, Knilans, J. Fitzgerald and Klenke; cosponsored by Senators Leibham, Lazich, Vukmir, Kapanke, Grothman, Darling, Galloway, Wanggaard, Kedzie, Ellis, Zipperer, Olsen, Schultz, Moulton, Lasee, Cowles, Hopper, Harsdorf, S. Fitzgerald and Carpenter.
Senator Alberta Darling
Senate Chair
Representative Robin Vos
Assembly Chair
 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

#VoterID Hearing 4/27/11 Capitol - AB7 - Listening to Testimony

There has been a great deal of, let us say negative feedback.  People are also concerned with fiscal and administrative impacts.  Various estimates of $4M to $5M have been offered - per year?  Semi-official organizations have indicated that training of staff and the public is going to impact preparedness for the next elections.  Whenever the word disenfranchisement is used the Republicans basically resort to rhetorical mechanisms to claim people have responsibility to follow the rules and this bill is not going to disenfranchise anyone.  Representatives of the UW Board of Regents favored allowing Student Ids. League of Women Voters does not support AB 7 ... need I go on!

As I listened/watched on WisEye.org from 11am until 3pm (with some gaps) I think I heard one person support AB 7.

The Brennan Center for Justice (link below) was referenced again and again ... seems like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) group think.

Voting Rights Under Attack

From that source -
Since January, legislators have proposed strict new voter ID policies in at least 37 states, including Florida, a key swing state in federal elections. Far more restrictive than bills introduced in the past, critics argue these policies are not only ineffective, but also make it harder for seniors, students and other vulnerable citizens to vote. A recent Brennan Center report finds these measures also have high implementation costs at a time when many states are trying to close budget gaps.
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/the_cost_of_voter_id_laws_what_the_courts_say/

 Previous blog entry -
Voter ID Hearing 4/27 Capitol - AB 7 - Common Cause

Today 4/28/11 from the Isthmus -
Dissenters dominate Wisconsin voter ID bill committee hearing - Alison Bauter on Thursday 04/28/2011 8:58 am