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The 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 established a requirement for nearly all voters to present approved photo identification to cast a ballot. It was one of many new voter ID laws in the United States . Act 23 was developed by Republican Governor Scott Walker and the Republican controlled Wisconsin Legislature during a walkout by Democratic lawmakers as ...
Wisconsin's voter ID law has been subject to litigation. Republican lawmakers and former GOP Gov. Scott Walker enacted the state's first photo ID law for voting in 2011, but it wasn't until the ...
Some states listed have "stop and ID" laws which may or may not require someone to identify themself during an investigative detention. While Wisconsin statutes allow law enforcement officers to "demand" ID, there is no statutory requirement to provide them ID nor is there a penalty for refusing to; hence Wisconsin is not a must ID state. [26]
[324] [325] On March 23, 2015, the United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the ACLU against Wisconsin's voter ID law, effectively upholding the Seventh Circuit's ruling that it is constitutional. [48] The law went into effect with the local/state primary vote on February 16, 2016. [326]
“Voter ID has been state law for over 10 years, and we cannot afford the chance for activist Supreme Court justices to strip away election integrity in Wisconsin,” said Rep. Alex Dallman, R-Marke
A pair of recent Supreme Court decisions — including a landmark decision in 2013 that rolled back portions of the Civil Rights Act — cleared the way for voter ID to spread to states across the ...
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin voters will have a choice on the April 1 ballot to create a state constitutional requirement to produce valid photo identification for elections. Heading into the ...
Real ID Act of 2005; Long title: An Act to establish and rapidly implement regulations for state driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.