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Across Wisconsin, there are multiple elections in 2022. That means it's important you have your ID, so you can vote. Whether you need to replace a drivers license, order a new one, or get your first ID here a few ways to do that to make sure you are eligible to vote.

Of course, requiring proof of identification — whether along with a vaccination card or at the voting booth — is not and never has been racist, and this majority-black city run by a black mayor just proved it. The real issue here is the government attempting to coerce people into getting injected against their will and taking away their ability to use public accommodations when they refuse.

Their concern is about it being too polarizing? how about illegal and unconstitutional? joining me now, mercedes and jason j fitz, fox news contributor. author of "the never let a crisis go to waste." great to see you tonight, something tells us the no i.d. to vote issue but prove the vaccine to travel isnt the best talking point for democrats in 2022. >> is that ironic? they say individuals dont have access to getting a voting i.d. but you better have that vaccine passport if youre going to go ...

>> black voters tend to not drive at the same rate as white voters so theres a higher percentage of african-americans who do not have drivers licenses and thats why we always seek to actually have additional forms of voting id able to be presented at the voting polls and the other thing, they allow guns, gun owners to present their guns and cars to vote and get they wont allow students to prevent from accusing their student id card so youve got a problem in texas, the problem with texas is histo...

>> black voters tend to not drive at the same rate as white voters so theres a higher percentage of african-americans who do not have drivers licenses and thats why we always seek to actually have additional forms of voting id able to be presented at the voting polls and the other thing, they allow guns, gun owners to present their guns and cars to vote and get they wont allow students to prevent from accusing their student id card so youve got a problem in texas, the problem with texas is histo...

>> black voters tend to not drive at the same rate as white voters so theres a higher percentage of african-americans who do not have drivers licenses and thats why we always seek to actually have additional forms of voting id able to be presented at the voting polls and the other thing, they allow guns, gun owners to present their guns and cars to vote and get they wont allow students to prevent from accusing their student id card so youve got a problem in texas, the problem with texas is histo...

Signature match. they didnt want any voting i.d. until about two weeks ago when they realized even their base believes in voter i.d. >> pete: well, we know why. >> its not the for the people act. its the corrupt act. >> pete: of course, we know they want to pass it so later on we can find out whats in it of course, in the mean time theyre characterizing it as the most critical threat to our democracy, which they always mischaracterize since the civil war, mark. now, you write about history. you ...

Thats not the way these fights are going everywhere. just yesterday, the united states supreme court upheld a pair of voting restrictions in arizona. one of those restrictions calls to nullify anyones vote that was accidentally cast in the wrong precinct. the other blocks anyone but a relative from helping you turn into your ballot. the legal challenge to those restrictions argued they affected voters of color and violated the voting rights act. the supreme court put those voting restrictions ba...

Sticking point was voter i.d. democrats said were wig to give on voter i.d. in exchange for expansion of early voting, banning partial redistricting which i think everybody agrees with if youre a republican in new york youre probably against partisan redistricting or a republican in illinois, probably against redistricting and also making election day a holiday. if you can make an election day holiday everybody will have the ability to vote. >> another shop day. >> yes. >> you dont have to work....

View of. >> so, scott, what is the status of this bill particularly after stacey abrams came forward and said, yeah. this bill has a lot of things that she likes and would support? >> so you have a compromise bill here but it is among senator manchins own party. lets go through the key tenets. election day would be a federal holiday. it ends partisan gerrymandering. guarantees 15 days consecutively of early voting and requires some form of voting i.d. or an alternative. that is a way to cast the...