Following a decision making student identification cards with stickers viable forms of voter ID, the Wisconsin Technical College System requested they be included in the decision so their students may be granted the same privilege.
In an effort to combat voter fraud, the new law requires all voters present valid photo ID to be eligible to vote at the polls.
Under new Government Accountability Board regulations, university and college IDs could be compliant with the law if it has a sticker including a student signature and ID expiration date.
Currently, the GAB's statute excludes technical schools.
But in a letter to the GAB, WTCS President Dan Clancy said because technical schools are accredited institutions, they meet the same requirements to qualify for stickers.
""There are important public policy issues to consider, including the fundamental fairness of treating one group of college students different from other groups,"" Clancy wrote.
Currently, 400,000 students are enrolled statewide in technical schools, with 16,000 credit-seeking students at Madison Area Technical College.
MATC Vice President for Student Development Keith Cornille said he hoped the omission of technical schools was unintetional.
""I'm hopeful that this was just a mistake on their part and they did truly intend to include the technical college students,"" Cornille said.
Clancy sent his letter just days after GOP leaders asked to review the GAB sticker policy, which could potentially axe the stickers for other universities and colleges as well.
Senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, and Assembly Majority Speaker Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, requested that the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules examine the new sticker policy to ""ensure clean, fair elections across the board.""
""Elections are supposed to be a true measure of the will of the people,"" Rep. Fitzgerald said. ""The legislature has a responsibility to make sure that ethics and elections laws are properly enforced and not misinterpreted.""
