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[[Image:Wisconsin.png|left|90px]]Taking a page from the ALEC corporate playbook, in May 2011 Wisconsin Governor and ALEC alumni Scott Walker signed into law one of the most restrictive Voter ID restrictions in the country. Wisconsin's bill would allow a narrow list of IDs for voting, including driver's licenses and state-issued ID cards. According to a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study, about 177,000 Wisconsinites aged 65 and older do not have state-issued IDs. Statewide, only 45 percent of African American males and 51 percent of females have a valid drivers license. The bill makes it particularly burdensome for college students to vote, a group who overwhelmingly supported Obama in 2008. The Wisconsin bill is a more detailed version of ALEC's [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/d/d9/7G16-VOTER_ID_ACT_Exposed.pdf Voter ID Act] of 2009. To pay for the Voter ID bill, the Wisconsin Joint Finance committee raided the money set aside for the public financing of campaigns, ending a 34-year tradition of public financing for elections in Wisconsin -- in conformity with ALEC's [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/a/ae/7G9-Resolution_Opposing_Taxpayer_Financed_Political_Campaigns_Exposed.pdf Resolution Opposing Taxpayer Financing of Political Campaigns]. Learn more here [(LINK to Mary's article on Wisconsincoming soon)].