US EditionWisconsin passes ballot measure requiring photo ID to vote
- Wisconsin voters approved a referendum on April 1 to add photo ID requirements to the state constitution.
- Republicans placed the measure on the ballot to protect the existing voter ID law from potential court challenges.
- The referendum passed with roughly 70% support, though only 5% of the total vote was recorded.
- A Marquette University Law School poll in late February showed 77% of Wisconsin voters backed the photo ID law.
- The constitutional amendment makes it harder for future Democratic-led legislatures to repeal the voter ID law.
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Why voter ID won in Wisconsin - Washington Examiner
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win is so noteworthy as Booker finished his mock filibuster of more than 24 hour…
Wisconsin voters approve GOP-backed voter ID amendment to state constitution
Wisconsin voters handed the GOP a win and a loss on Tuesday. The liberal candidate, Susan Crawford won the contentious election for a seat on the state’s supreme court. But voters also passed a GOP-backed measure to enshrine voter ID laws into the state constitution, making it much more difficult to change the existing state law should Democrats return to power in the state legislature. Republicans celebrated the moment. Ashley Davis, a former G…
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