[EL] Wisconsin - correction

[Rick Hasen]

Sorry I had not seen Josh's post--He's right that the ruling in one of 
the case was 5-2, not 4-3. It was 4-3 in the NAACP case.  Sorry for the 
error.
On 7/31/14, 6:21 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
>     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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