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State Sen. Mary Lazich, urging fellow Republican senators to enact a voter ID requirement in a closed-door meeting in 2011, told her colleagues to consider its impact in the Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and the state’s college campuses, a top aide to a former GOP senator testified in federal court Monday.

Congressman Glenn Grothman, serving at that time as a state senator, said in the same meeting that he supported voter ID because it would help Republicans win elections, according to the aide, Todd Allbaugh.

Other Republican lawmakers in the meeting appeared “giddy” at those prospects, Allbaugh testified. At the time of the meeting, he was chief of staff to then-Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center.

“What I’m concerned about here is winning,” Grothman, of Campbellsport, told his GOP colleagues, Allbaugh said.

Lazich, of New Berlin, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, told her Republican colleagues “we’ve got to think about what this would mean” for neighborhoods in Milwaukee and “college campuses,” Allbaugh said.

Democrats tend to fare well in elections in those areas, including in Milwaukee, home to a large share of Wisconsin’s African-American and Latino populations.