Wisconsin colleges to issue IDs to comply with voter law


Wisconsin’s election board authorized a state university to issue identification cards that students can use to comply with the new law requiring voters to present photo ID at polling places, Reuters reports. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point joined six other schools authorized by the Government Accountability Board to issue secondary ID cards that comply with the law in Wisconsin, one of several states to pass such legislation this year. In addition to Stevens Point, the system’s flagship university in Madison along with schools in Milwaukee, Whitewater, La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Green Bay will issue the secondary ID cards. The eighth school — the University of Wisconsin-Superior — has received approval to re-issue primary identification cards to all students that meet the voter ID requirements…

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