by Andrew Beckett | Jun 13, 2013
As the legal battle continues over Wisconsin’s contentious voter ID requirement, the speaker of the state Assembly is pledging that he will make sure the law is in place before the November 2014 elections. A state appeals court recently overturned an injunction...
by Andrew Beckett | May 30, 2013
A law requiring Wisconsin voters to show a government-issued photo identification card at the polls has been found consitutional by a state appeals court. The decision issued Thursday by the Fourth District Court of Appeals overturns a March 2012 ruling from Dane...
by Andrew Beckett | Jan 15, 2013
The state Supreme Court has rejected another request to take up a challenge to Wisconsin’s Voter ID law. The high court on Monday denied a request from the state to take up a direct appeal of a Dane County court decision that resulted in one of the two...
by Andrew Beckett | Dec 29, 2012
Wisconsin’s Voter ID law had a rocky start this year, taking effect for only two months before the courts brought it to a screeching halt. The law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID at the polls kicked in at the start of 2012 and was used in...
by WRN Contributor | Nov 8, 2012
Wisconsin’s attorney general is making another attempt to have the State Supreme Court take over a pair of cases challenging a state law that requires voters to show a government issued photo ID at the polls. Republican J.B. Van Hollen was hoping the court would...
by Andrew Beckett | Oct 1, 2012
Wisconsin’s Attorney General is not giving up on efforts to reinstate the state’s voter ID law before the November elections. The state Supreme Court last Thursday rejected a request to stay injunctions preventing the photo I-D requirement from being...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 27, 2012
Wisconsin’s Voter ID law will likely remain on hold during the November elections. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen had asked the state Supreme Court to take up a pair of lawsuits challenging the controversial law, and to stay injunctions that currently stop the...
by Andrew Beckett | Sep 26, 2012
If the state’s controversial voter ID law is put back in place before November, Wisconsin election officials say they’re ready to help election officials and the public prepare. The law has been on hold since earlier this year, after judges in two separate...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 13, 2012
State elections officials say they are concerned about the possible impact of a state Supreme Court ruling on the voter ID law before the November elections. If injunctions blocking the enforcement of the law were to be overturned, State Government Accountability...
by Andrew Beckett | Aug 21, 2012
Wisconsin’s attorney general wants the state Supreme Court to reinstate a voter ID law before the November election. The requirement has been blocked since earlier this year by two court injunctions out of Dane County. Both cases are currently before an...
by Bob Hague | Jul 18, 2012
The state will appeal the latest court ruling against Wisconsin’s voter ID law. Groups representing blacks and Hispanics in Milwaukee had argued the Republican written mandate created too great a burden for those without photo identification. Dane County Circuit Judge...
by Andrew Beckett | Jul 18, 2012
For the second time since its passage, a Dane County judge has ruled a law requiring Wisconsin voters to show a photo ID at the polls is unconstitutional. Dane County Judge David Flanagan issued the ruling late Tuesday, saying the law “has been shown to be a an...
by Andrew Beckett | Apr 26, 2012
A state appeals court has denied a second request to lift an injunction blocking Wisconsin’s Voter ID law. The Fourth District Court of Appeals on Thursday said it will not lift a permanent injunction stopping Wisconsin’s Voter ID law from being enforced....
by Andrew Beckett | Apr 25, 2012
The Second District Court of Appeals has denied a request to lift an injunction blocking Wisconsin’s Voter ID law from being enforced. The temporary injunction was issued earlier this year by a Dane County judge as part of a lawsuit filed by the Milwaukee...
by Andrew Beckett | Apr 17, 2012
A lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s Voter ID law got underway Monday in Dane County court. The trial opened with attorneys for the Milwaukee Chapter of the NAACP arguing the law should be ruled unconstitutional because it creates an extreme burden for voters who...
by Andrew Beckett | Apr 16, 2012
The state Supreme Court will not take up a pair of lawsuits currently blocking Wisconsin’s Voter ID law from being used at the polls. Two Dane County judges had issued separate injunctions stopping the photo ID requirement in cases brought by the League of Women...
by Andrew Beckett | Mar 20, 2012
With a statewide election coming up in just a few weeks, the state’s top election official says immediate appeals of court injunctions blocking Wisconsin’s Voter ID requirement could cause too much confusion. The injunctions were issued by two Dane County...
by Bob Hague | Mar 12, 2012
For the second time in recent days, a judge in Dane County has ruled against Wisconsin’s controversial voter ID law. On Monday, Judge Richard Neiss issued a permanent injunction against the law, in a challenge brought forward by the Wisconsin League of Women...
by Jackie Johnson | Mar 6, 2012
A court puts the brakes on the controversial voter ID law. A Dane County judge orders the state to stop the enforcement of the new voting law that requires photo identification at the polls. That means voters won’t need to show a photo ID for the spring...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 21, 2012
State election officials are hoping for a smooth transition at the polls for Wisconsin’s first election with a new Voter ID requirement in place. Today’s primary elections mark the first time Wisconsin voters will need to show a photo ID at the polls. Reid...
