People who die waiting for a state-issued voter ID are recorded as a “customer-initiated cancellation” by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, a DMV official testified Thursday.
On the fourth day of a trial challenging a series of voting changes implemented in Wisconsin since 2011, U.S. District Judge James Peterson heard testimony from a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and Sun Prairie’s city clerk. But lawyers focused on Susan Schilz, a supervisor in the DMV’s compliance, audit and fraud unit, who was questioned for several hours.
Schilz’s unit oversees the ID petition process, or IDPP — the system qualified voters use to obtain a free ID from the state.
The lawsuit, filed about a year ago, argues the IDPP is ineffective and is failing minority groups in particular.