Corroboration?... the practice of allowing new or recently relocated voters to establish residency in a ward and register to vote by having someone vouch for them if they lack an acceptable document that shows their address....
Sen. Mary Lazich, the law's chief sponsor, said the corroboration ban would stop only those attempting voter fraud... Lazich said election clerks told her several years before the law passed that they worried that "chain corroboration" — large groups of people vouching for each other — was "out of hand."...
Some students and homeless people have used corroboration, but [Diane Hermann-Brown, past president and current communications chairwoman for the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Association] said new brides and elderly women who move in with adult their children are most likely to be hurt by the ban when they don't have utility bills or other common proofs of residence in their names....
A River Falls man who had moved in with his girlfriend but didn't change his address or have any utilities in his name was unable to register to vote even though the chief election inspector at the polling place knew him well, said Carolyn Castore of Milwaukee, who coordinated 150 observers across the state.
"It chagrined the chief inspector because that man lived next door to her and had shoveled her sidewalk last winter," according to a league report on problems at the polls.
So... it seems that somehow Democrats have this vision of modern life where everyone knows everyone else personally and there's nothing to verify and only terrible Republican meanies — trying to disenfranchise new brides and elderly women — would expect something more than just people vouching for each other. The Dems are selling this rosy optimistic picture of community, where the fornicator next door shovels your snow, and the Repubs are troubling us with scary pessimism: hordes of who-know-who — student-y and homeless-looking characters — corroborating lies.
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