[EL] Wisconsin

[Rick Hasen]

    Breaking: Divided WI Supreme Court Upholds Voter ID Law; Federal Ban
    Still in Effect <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63845>

Posted on July 31, 2014 6:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63845>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up onthis post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63841>, the 
Wisconsin Supreme Court, on a 4-3 vote, has rejected 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/divided-court-upholds-wisconsins-voter-id-law-b99321108z1-269363811.html>two 
challenges to the state's voter id law.

The federal ban on the law under the U.S. Constitution and Section 2 of 
the Voting Rights Act remains in effect.

You can read the opinions here 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012AP000584.pdf> and 
here <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012AP000584.pdf>.

Many had thought the Wisconsin court would strike down the law following 
questions at oral argument, and there was talk at one point of a special 
session to revise the law to deal with objections. That talk went away 
with the federal ruling in Frank v. Walker.  That case is now pending at 
the 7th Circuit and the opinion will be important and likely 
influential, being the first appellate case to deal with the Section 2 
issue.

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