Posted on 09/13/2014 5:12:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CHICAGO — A federal appeals court on Friday permitted Wisconsin to restore a requirement that voters provide photo identification before casting their ballots, allowing the long-debated state law to take effect in time for a hard-fought election on Nov. 4.
The order, which came surprisingly swiftly, on the same day that lawyers made their arguments before a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, was seen as a significant victory for advocates of such voting requirements. Opponents of the laws had viewed the Wisconsin case as opening a novel legal basis for their efforts in federal courtrooms.
In their order, the panel of three judges described Wisconsin’s requirement as “materially identical” to a statute in Indiana, which was upheld in 2008 by the Supreme Court. The panel also noted that Wisconsin had introduced new procedures to make it easier to obtain photo identification cards, reducing concerns raised months ago by a federal court judge who had blocked Wisconsin’s law, saying that it disproportionately affected blacks and Latinos.
“This reduces the likelihood of irreparable injury, and it also changes the balance of equities and thus the propriety of federal injunctive relief,” the appeals panel, which stayed the earlier court’s injunction, said....
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The local (La Crosse) media (Democrats all) pointed out that it was three ‘Republican’ judges. HA
Oh, how the DIMs/LIBs hate fair elections with no fraud.
Disenfranchising the Obama voters. Love it!
More on the Wisconsin Voter ID decision...
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Looks like a revolution is taking place in Utopian Wisconsin...
Another loss for Holder. Never understood how laws that are identical to one upheld by the Supreme Court are overturned. Oh wait, what am I saying.
We still have the ‘voting machines problems’, along with the left’s fraud determination.
Using a camera to record ones vote should be as much as a right as a valid ID!!!!
I think all phones have to be turned off at all voting places.
There are very small cameras that can be worn. Screw the rules. The leftist
don’t follow rules, why should anyone else?
Funny how the welfare recipients are ‘disproportionally’ black & hispanic.
wonder how in washington county (west bend) how all the people in the cemetaries were able to vote without a valid ID. They are dead but they did vote. I can remeber in 2012 when my mother voted for her last time in Washington County. all the hoopla about the cemetaries have the names on headstones being registered voters.
> Opponents of the laws had viewed the Wisconsin case as opening a novel legal basis for their efforts in federal courtrooms. In their order, the panel of three judges described Wisconsin’s requirement as “materially identical” to a statute in Indiana, which was upheld in 2008 by the Supreme Court.
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