Posted on 09/23/2014 4:39:42 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Wisconsin offices that issue driver's licenses aren't open enough hours to issue photo IDs to all the voters who need them before the Nov. 4 election, a liberal group told federal judges in a brief filed Monday.
Wisconsin's 2011 law requires voters to show a government-issued ID with a photo to vote. Because of legal challenges, the requirement had not been enforced since the February 2012 primary. But a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said Sept. 12 that the law could be used for the Nov. 4 election and other elections while it considers the merits of arguments against the law.
Two civil rights groups asked the entire appeals court last week to reconsider that decision.
One Wisconsin Institute told the court Monday that a significant difference between the Wisconsin case and one involving Indiana's photo ID law was voters' ability to actually get IDs. The U.S. Supreme Court found Indiana's law acceptable.
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
Don’t Democrat have buses to pick up people who can’t walk or drive?
Saying ANYTHING and take it to a liberal judge over and over again.
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