When Wisconsin Democrats vote in their state’s presidential primary on April 5, thousands of them may be turned away after waiting in line for hours.
The voter ID law Governor Scott Walker signed in 2011 is one of the most stringent in the country, in that it severely limits the types of photo ID accepted at voting precincts.
As ThinkProgress’ Alice Ollstein pointed out, veterans and college students are unable to vote with the identification cards provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and state universities. The coming presidential primary will be the first major election in which voters will have to contend with the strict new law, with critics resoundingly agreeing that it has a dampening effect on turnout. In the most recent Supreme Court election, turnout was desperately lo