1. Not a restrictive voter-ID law. Anyone can go and get their ID and vote, they just have to go and get it. Kinda like shopping for groceries if you want to eat. Somehow people manage to find the time.
2. Research, conducted by who? Two political-science professors at the University of Wisconsin? Political affiliation, agenda, bias, sponsorships, accreditations, etc.? How many conservatives were also involved in researching, documenting, and publishing this piece of liberal propaganda. Someone still upset about the last election?
3. Surveyed 288 people in heavily populated Dane and Milwaukee counties. 288 people? Did they just run down to the unemployment office or the welfare line, or individuals evading ICE patrols? Anyone can find 288 people to skew any research to their liking.
4. Law requires a driver’s license, passport, naturalization, or more-obscure documents. So go down to the Secretary of States Office and get a state ID if you need one. What other "obscure" documents can be used? They don't even list them. At least give the necessary information to help people.
5. Many of the people surveyed did actually possess proper ID, but thought the law would bar them from voting anyway, and did not bother to cast a ballot. Then stop thinking. If your not even going to bother to find out what you need to vote, then you miss out. If you already have the required documents and you still don't bother to vote, you miss out. Get up off your couch and go to your polling stations people.
6. Claim of making it more difficult to vote is only applicable to those seeking voter fraud. If you don't have to show a photo ID, then you can walk up to the voter registration table and claim to be anyone from any local address. Just need a valid name and address number off of a mailbox. That's real difficult. I actually pulled my drivers license out of my wallet one year, and the person behind the table stated, "we don't check ID's here".
7. “Voter Fraud Commission” whose purported aim is to maintain the “integrity” of elections, but whose real mission is to nationalize the state-level attack on democratic representation. So this author gets to define the internal goals and agendas of Federal employees commissioned to seek out names of dead people and illegals attempting to vote? Ask your state election officials when was the last time your voter registration lists were checked and verified against current information? When was the last time anyone was removed from a voter registration list?
8. Earlier claims that hundreds of thousands of people didn’t vote in Wisconsin because of the voter-ID laws were met with strong and convincing rebuttals. And it’s certain that the decrease in black turnout in Wisconsin was due at least in part to the candidates on offer, not the new laws. So they didn't like Hillary either, wow. That's another good reason to stay home I guess.