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Friday, August 01, 2014

Voter ID Law Upheld by Wisconsin Supreme Court

"Photo identification is a condition of our times.."

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state law requiring voters to have photo identification to cast a ballot, although the law remains blocked by an earlier ruling by a federal judge that it is unconstitutional.

The court wrote in its decision that providing a photo identification at the ballot box does not create a substantial burden to the voter, as claimed by the plaintiffs in the case.

“Photo identification is a condition of our times where more and more personal interactions are being modernized to require proof of identity,” the court wrote.

Similar voter identification laws have become a political and racial flashpoint across the United States with Democrats generally opposed and many Republicans backing them.

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3 comments:

  1. And the ironic part of this decision is that the only single case of voter fraud in Wisconsin that was presented to the court was a man who in one way or another voted for Republican Scott Walker 13 times. And in ways that a photo ID check would not have prevented.

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  2. More wind taken out of OBAMAS sail I love it.

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