In a news release, Scot Ross, Democratic Party secretary of state candidate, called Republican Congressman Mark Green's Milwaukee Voter ID "stunt" the latest in a series of GOP attacks on the right to vote.
"Mark Green and Republican legislators are trying to keep people who earn less than $35,000 from voting," said Ross. "Mark Green's voter ID bill is nothing more than a modern-day poll tax."
Ross, whose campaign has centered on protecting the right to vote, said Republican voter suppression is a long-time nemesis of the Democratic process. Recently, Green and disgraced Jack Abramoff ally Ohio Rep. Bob Ney held a sham hearing pushing for similar assaults on voter rights.
"We need elections that are fair and clean and Mark Green is standing in the way," said Ross. "No one is more concerned than I am about keeping someone who doesn't have the right to vote out of the ballot box. The only thing that concerns me more is any eligible voter being denied his or her Constitutional right to vote."
"With what a miserable failure Green and the Bush Administration have been, it's no wonder Mark Green's top priority is keeping people out of the voting booths," said Ross. "We've got skyrocketing gas prices, out-of-control health care costs and a mess in Iraq yet Mark Green's priorities are keeping people from voting and pleasing his extremist special interest pals."
