The new Voter ID Law requires all voters to bring photo identification with them to the polls, and the DMV has announced voters can now renew their ID cards online through the DMV’s website.

A Wisconsin ID card is valid for eight years and can be renewed online one time, so Wisconsin ID card holders can go up to 16 years without having to visit a DMV customer service center. Wisconsin ID cards that are needed for voting purposes are free.

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The issue is a perennial one in New Mexico — “voter ID,” which is political shorthand for requiring voters to show photo identification before voting. The chief of staff for Secretary of State Dianna Duran confirmed Tuesday that Duran will push for such legislation in the session. And a spokesman for Gov. Susana Martinez said Tuesday that the governor would grant a message for the bill to allow it to be addressed in the upcoming session.

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Residents of Leesburg, Florida were shocked to see their local Social Security office turned into a random Homeland Security checkpoint Tuesday morning, as DHS officers armed with semiautomatic rifles and accompanied by sniffer dogs checked identifications of locals.

I guess the integrity of the vote isn’t as important as the right to… enter a Social Security office.  Apparently, there has been 9,300 of these Department of Homeland InSecurity checkpoints supposedly set up to protect us from the terrorists.  Did they get this precleared with the Holder DOJ?

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Wednesday was the first session of the 2012 Nebraska Legislature and already there is heavy debate. LB 239 would require voters to show an identification before casting a ballot in an election.  Full story at the link.

Texas Tribune: “If Texas is going to hold primary elections on April 3, the federal courts will have to pick up the pace.”  Link here.

This is about as sober as it gets for an editorial on Voter ID.   “Who Votes” in the Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia).

 American Thinker.

The timesfreepress.com reports: Senate Republicans’ first redistricting effort in state history also provides some surprises.

It pits two GOP incumbent senators in Middle Tennessee against each other in a redrawn Senate District 25. The seat, now held by Sen. Jim Summerville, R-Dickson, adds Robertson County, which is home to Sen. Kerry Roberts, R-Springfield, who represents Senate District 18.

And Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, will have to deal with Senate Democratic Leader Jim Kyle of Memphis, who suddenly finds himself drawn into what is expected to be a GOP-leaning district.

Republicans say in the description of what they call their “regional integrity plan” that the new map pairs four current incumbents into two districts “to meet equal population guidelines — three of these four paired incumbents are Republicans, an indication of the fairness of the overall plan.”

The GOP says minority voting strength “is enhanced to an historic level in this proposed Senate map, increasing from three majority-minority Senate districts in the Democrats’ drawn map of 2002 to four majority minority districts.”

In Wisconsin, the public outreach over photo ID is escalating with an all-out blitz of informational ads using all different types of media.    

The Government Accountability Board will begin blanketing the state with TV, radio and billboard ads this week, reminding people about the new voter ID law.

GAB spokesman Reid Magney says the state will spend about $436,000 on the ads heading into the February 21st. primaries.

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