Conservative judges want onerous WI Voter ID law eased
We have reached a rather instructive point in our state's lengthy and costly struggle with the GOP's down-the-rabbit-hole voter photo ID law which was never designed to address an actual problem - - in-person voter impersonation - - but which was crafted only - - Google "Grothman, Voter ID, truth" - - to fix elections and tip them in our purple state to Republican candidates:
A panel of three federal appeals court judges - - all appointed by Republican presidents - - has instructed a Milwaukee federal court to find a way to repair some of the law's most egregious ballot-box obstructionism.
Two of the three judges on the appellate court panel in Chicago had earlier rubber-stamped Wisconsin's Voter ID law's constitutionality after a few hours of 'deliberation,' so props to the ACLU of Wisconsin for injecting some sanity into this mess by honing an argument that may remove some of the law's egregious and undemocratic unconstitutionality:
Let's not forget that while a citizen is directed to official DMV offices across the state to obtain a valid-for-voting ID, some of those offices are open just a few hours of the year.
Some of these DMV offices should have a street address on Blind Alley.
Here is the website listing the location and hours of all such offices.
I clicked on the first location listed - - Abbostsford - - and the last - - Wittenburg - - and you tell me if it looks like Wisconsin citizens living there might have "difficulty" getting a voter ID which affirms their voting rights and unlocks their communities' ballot boxes:
Abbotosford:
A panel of three federal appeals court judges - - all appointed by Republican presidents - - has instructed a Milwaukee federal court to find a way to repair some of the law's most egregious ballot-box obstructionism.
Two of the three judges on the appellate court panel in Chicago had earlier rubber-stamped Wisconsin's Voter ID law's constitutionality after a few hours of 'deliberation,' so props to the ACLU of Wisconsin for injecting some sanity into this mess by honing an argument that may remove some of the law's egregious and undemocratic unconstitutionality:
Sean Young, an attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project who argued the case, said: “The court ruled that eligible voters facing difficulty obtaining ID have the right to challenge Wisconsin’s strict voter ID law. This ruling gives them the chance to go back to the lower court to make their case. This is a victory for the voters of Wisconsin.”
"The Appeals Court determined that just because it may be easy for most people to get ID, the state can't take voting rights away from people who have real difficulties getting ID," said Karyn Rotker, ACLU of Wisconsin Senior Staff Attorney
The ruling is at: https://www.aclu.org/So how do we define the level difficulty obtaining mandatory IDs which rises to unconstitutionality, and why should any level of state-imposed voting difficulty be tolerated?legal-document/frank-v-walker- ruling
Let's not forget that while a citizen is directed to official DMV offices across the state to obtain a valid-for-voting ID, some of those offices are open just a few hours of the year.
Some of these DMV offices should have a street address on Blind Alley.
Here is the website listing the location and hours of all such offices.
I clicked on the first location listed - - Abbostsford - - and the last - - Wittenburg - - and you tell me if it looks like Wisconsin citizens living there might have "difficulty" getting a voter ID which affirms their voting rights and unlocks their communities' ballot boxes:
Abbotosford:
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