April 28, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Tunisia: Politics: State Government: Voting: Wisconsin State Journal: Republicans said they'll try to change the state constitution if Gov. Jim Doyle follows through on his promise to veto a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and lawmakers are unable to override it
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April 28, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Tunisia: Politics: State Government: Voting: Wisconsin State Journal: Republicans said they'll try to change the state constitution if Gov. Jim Doyle follows through on his promise to veto a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and lawmakers are unable to override it
Republicans said they'll try to change the state constitution if Gov. Jim Doyle follows through on his promise to veto a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and lawmakers are unable to override it
Republicans said they'll try to change the state constitution if Gov. Jim Doyle follows through on his promise to veto a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and lawmakers are unable to override it
GOP adamant about voter ID law
00:00 am 4/28/05
Phil Brinkman Wisconsin State Journal
Republicans said Tuesday they'll try to change the state constitution if Gov. Jim Doyle follows through on his promise to veto a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls and lawmakers are unable to override it.
"People - Republican, Democrat, Green, independent - want their votes to count," Assembly Speaker John Gard, R- Peshtigo, said before delivering the bill and a pile of petitions supporting its passage to Doyle. "If you have one person in Gov. Doyle stopping it, then we need to at some point turn to the people and let the people weigh in."
Doyle, who vetoed similar legislation two years ago, has said he will not sign the bill despite several changes supporters said address the governor's concerns.
Those changes include provisions letting the Department of Transportation waive the $9 fee for a driver's license or state identification card for anyone who requests it and letting nursing home administrators vouch for residents who may not have identification.
"Gov. Doyle: We've listened to you," said Sen. Joseph Leibham, R-Sheboygan, the bill's chief sponsor in the Senate. "We now ask you to listen to the citizens of this state."
Republicans contend the measure is necessary in light of several cases of suspected voter fraud in Milwaukee in the last election. Currently, voters can register at the polls using just a utility bill or by having someone vouch for their identity.
Doyle and many of his fellow Democrats say the requirement poses an unnecessary burden on voters, falling mostly on the poor, minorities, students and the elderly.
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Lawmakers would need a two-thirds vote in each house to override Doyle's veto, which appears unlikely since the measure passed initially by just under that margin.
Bypassing the governor to amend the constitution requires passage by two successive Legislatures and approval in a statewide referendum. The earliest such a vote could be scheduled would be in 2007.
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