This is a poll tax, pure and simple:
Wisconsin Republicans recently passed a controversial bill requiring that voters provide valid photo identification at the polls. Those IDs are free, if you ask—if you don’t, they’re $28. And that Department of Transportation memo recommending that staffers not tell applicants that state IDs are free? Just a coincidence that it was authored by a former Republican staffer!
Wisc. Official Tells Staff to Keep Quiet About Free Voter IDs.