UW-Madison Prints Last Minute Voter IDs For Students At Campus Polling Places

University of Wisconsin-Madison is printing out last minute voter identification cards for students at polling places on campus.

The university has been distributing free voter ID cards for the past year because regular student IDs are not valid for voting purposes. As of Monday, the campus issued 6,486 voter IDs.

“(Voting) can be a complicated process, and we just wanted to make sure that we’d done everything that we could to make it straight forward for (our students),” Meredith McGlone, the university’s director of news and media relations, said.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Dee Hughes, who was working with the university’s Wiscard Office, printed more than 120 IDs since the polls opened at 7 a.m. She said most out-of-state students know they need to stop by for an ID, but some Wisconsin residents don’t realize there’s no need for them to get one printed.

Dee has printed about 120 UW voter ID cards in the Gordon Center on campus today #election2016 pic.twitter.com/0vrT6aIvck

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“There have been a few students not aware that if they’re a Wisconsin resident, their driver’s license is plenty enough of an ID for them to vote,” Hughes said.

Sophomore Hadyn Hebert is a Wisconsin resident, but she still needed to get an ID on campus to vote today.

“I could not find my driver’s license,” Hebert said. “So I had to come (on campus), and so it was really convenient that it was right here and they had printing available for us.”

Printing stations will be open at all campus polling places until voting ends at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Students living and voting on and off campus are eligible to get voter IDs printed.