Some opponents of Minnesota's proposed voter ID amendment are angry at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, saying the organization is not putting enough resources into defeating the measure.


She said she's frustrated by the campaign's lack of resources and disappointed that the DFL hasn't done more to help. She said she recently resorted to paying for lawn signs for her nonpartisan group to distribute.

"I just feel like, 'Why haven't you come out on this?'" Hill said. "And what I've heard is that they say 'because we couldn't win it.' Well, it's because you didn't try. You can't tell me that each ballot you went into you knew you were going to win."


McAfee described the voter ID amendment as a "direct threat to democracy" and "a step backward for people of color" because it would make it harder for many of them to vote. McAfee credits some Democrats -- including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, state Rep. Bobby Joe Champion and state Sen.


Jeff Hayden, all of Minneapolis -- for taking strong stands against voter ID. But he said the party has not done the same.

"What black folk need to do is wake up and evaluate the Democratic Party harder than they've been doing," he said. "Because they've left us out to dry, and many others."




"The party is doing everything it can with limited resources to try to help get the word out and defeat this. It would be really unfair to say the party isn't doing its part."


ISAIAH is also a member.

