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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Wisconsin Voter ID Law
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Also send it to anyone who may have forgotten what Dr. King died for.
This is the same Supreme Court that did accept for review the farcical King v. Burwell case and ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby.
Richard Posner, a conservative Judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Wisconsin Voter ID law is “a mere fig leaf for efforts to disenfranchise voters.” For example, although the law accepts some student ID's it doesn't accept those from the University of Wisconsin campuses.
The law was modified to add Tribal ID's and passports, but according to Politifact:
Even in its new form, Wisconsin’s law is one of the most restrictive, based on our research on acceptable IDs and voting procedures for those without IDs. We got information on new voter ID laws around the country from state election offices, and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Two states pop up as contenders with Wisconsin for the title of "most restrictive."
One, Texas, which like Wisconsin passed a photo ID law in May 2011, now appears to be more restrictive, said University Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon. Texas outlaws student IDs.
But Texas allows a concealed carry firearms permit as proof of identification, which Wisconsin does not. And Texas allows six days to supply missing photo ID after an election compared with three days in Wisconsin.
"They are very similar," Keesha Gaskins, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice, a voting rights advocacy group that is critical of photo ID provisions, said of the Wisconsin and Texas laws.
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