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Wisconsin's voter ID law has been subject to litigation. ... In July 2016, a federal court ruled that the law was unconstitutional and that an alternative to showing an ID, such as signing an ...
Adelman said that it was not shown that voters without acceptable identification could obtain it under the Act and that the state failed to show evidence of recent voter impersonation fraud. [12] Adelman's ruling marked that first time that a voter ID law had been found to violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
[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]
Justice David Souter, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, filed a dissenting opinion, which would have declared the voter ID laws unconstitutional. Souter argued that Indiana had the burden of producing actual evidence of the existence of fraud, as opposed to relying on abstract harms, before imposing "an unreasonable and irrelevant burden ...
The Wisconsin State Assembly voted to approve the resolution, passed a week earlier by the Senate. The measure will be on the April 1 ballot. ... “Voter ID has been state law for over 10 years ...
The Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday approved the proposal to ask voters whether they want to constitutionally protect the state’s voter ID law. It was a Republican led party-line 17-15 vote. "This ...
In April 2014, Federal District Court Judge Lynn Adelman ruled in Frank v. Walker that Wisconsin's voter ID law was unconstitutional because "virtually no voter impersonation occurs in Wisconsin". [67] A 2014 Election Law Journal study of the 2012 election found no evidence of widespread voter impersonation.
North Dakota is the latest state to have their voter ID law ruled unconstitutional by a Federal Court. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...