State officials told a judge last week they had trained workers to make sure people could easily get IDs for voting, but an audio recording was released Thursday of Division of Motor Vehicles employees telling a man he couldn’t get one quickly because he didn’t have a birth certificate with him.
“You don’t get anything right away,” one DMV employee said on the recording.
How IDs are handled is “up in the air right now,” said another.
The recordings were made Sept. 22, the same day Attorney General Brad Schimel filed court documents stating DMV “field staff are now trained to ensure that anyone who fills out these forms will receive a photo ID, mailed to them within six days of their application,” even if they don’t have a birth certificate.
The Nation first reported on the recording, which was made by Molly McGrath, the national campaign coordinator with VoteRiders, a group helping people get IDs.