Prompted by Rep. Bryan Steil to act, the feckless Wisconsin Elections Commission will meet on Friday to issue guidance clarifying the use of noncitizen IDs at the polls.
Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee, which oversees federal election law, sent a letter late last week demanding WEC clarify whether swing state Wisconsin’s Limited Term and Non-Domiciled driver’s licenses and ID cards may be used as proof of residency to register to vote.
Spoiler Alert: The temporary visitor IDs generally issued to noncitizens can be used to vote, according to proposed guidance from members of the Elections Commission. So anybody could potentially claim to be a U.S. citizen and vote with the ID, with only their word as proof, Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell explained to The Federalist.
Wisconsin law, according to the WEC memo, “mandates that these identifications must be accepted as a proper form of voter identification.”
“However, possessing a valid identification does not necessarily mean the holder of the identification is eligible to vote,” the memo states.
As the guidance notes, Limited Term and Non-Domiciled ID holders, or “temporary visitors,” generally are not lawful permanent residents — green card holders — or U.S. citizens at the time the IDs are issued.
Noncitizens are strictly prohibited from voting in U.S. elections, so why would the temporary visitor IDs be cleared for use to vote in elections?
Spindell tells The Federalist that a cardholder could have become a naturalized citizen after the issuance of the ID. But the individual doesn’t
