Wisconsin's new voting law requires even previously registered voters to show state-issued identification when they hit the polls. A 67-year-old Milwaukee man who has voted for 40 years is now running into trouble — he's partially blind and therefore has never had or needed a driver's license. Leroy Switlick has made three trips to a state office to obtain a photo ID without success, being told that he needed to show a photo ID to obtain a photo ID.
"If I'm coming to get a photo ID," Switlick told the BBC, "how can I already have a photo ID?"
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