Augie Biami, Milwaukee, WI

Biami almost didn’t vote on Election Day. That’s because as he was standing in line at the polls he discovered that he was not on the voter rolls. He had changed addresses since he had registered to vote and says that he had not actually submitted any notification of a change of address. He did not understand how they knew he had moved and why he was dropped off the voter rolls.

So Biami had to change his registration on Election Day, which he was able to do at his polling site by filling out a special form. But then he had another problem. A poll worker told him he could not vote with his old drivers’ license as identification since it listed his old address instead of his new one – even though he had just changed his voter registration address that day. So Biami had to leave the polling site to get proof of his address.

“You know, you don’t feel like running back and forth so I almost just went home and didn’t even bother,” stated Biami. However, he says, he decided to take more time out of his day to go back to his polling site. When asked why, Biami says, “My vote does count, so, you know, I just had to get mine in there.”