The emergency rule is set to take effect on Friday, days before a federal court will hear arguments in a lawsuit against the state's voter ID law brought by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Institute Executive Director Scot Ross issued a statement saying the group’s attorneys were reviewing the emergency rule. [Associated Press]
This is an administration that time and again has manipulated the rules on voting to gain partisan advantage.
A recent filing in a lawsuit brought by One Wisconsin Institute and other voter rights advocates exposed serious flaws at the Department of Motor Vehicles in providing Wisconsinites with the ID that voters must now produce to cast their ballot at the polls. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Gov. Scott Walker and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos have in public comments both suggested the absence of an educational campaign on the state voter ID law is in part due to the lawsuits over the law.
In a recent complaint filed by One Wisconsin Institute... plaintiffs challenged several Wisconsin voting provisions, including 2011 Wisconsin Act 23. [State of Elections]
U.S. District Judge James Peterson determined the liberal group One Wisconsin Now could keep alive its arguments that voters should be able to use a broader range of IDs for voting. [Appleton Post-Crescent]
U.S. District Judge James Peterson determined the liberal group One Wisconsin Now could keep alive its arguments that voters should be able to use a broader range of IDs for voting. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Executive Director for One Wisconsin Now, Scot Ross, discusses the hurdles voters are facing this campaign season. [MSNBC]
But Democrats like Scot Ross with One Wisconsin Now, say the voter ID law results in the complete opposite of an honest election. [WMTV-TV]
The liberal group One Wisconsin Now immediately pounced on the congressman's remarks about voter ID, telling us they plan to possibly use his comments in a federal lawsuit they filed last year to stop the law. [WTMJ-TV]
On Election Day, the truth comes straight from the horse’s mouth: Republicans passed voter ID because they have to cheat to win in November.
The only fraud in Wisconsin elections has been proven: Gov. Walker and the Republican state legislature changed the laws for partisan, political gain.
It’s clear that students were targeted with significant restrictions on their IDs and the higher burden they now have in accessing their right to vote. [The Guardian]
College students can’t use drivers licenses from states other than Wisconsin to vote. And most of the photo IDs their schools automatically issue aren’t compliant with the law, explained Analiese Eicher. [Daily Beast]
The Wisconsin primary will be the first big test of the state's controversial voter ID law. Scot Ross, Executive Director of Wisconsin Now, joins Al Sharpton to discuss. [MSNBC]
Voter ID laws may make it harder for our generation to vote — and they certainly need to be addressed. But regardless, millennial Wisconsinites are fighting back to make sure our generation’s voice is heard Tuesday, in November, and every day in between. [Capital Times]
Early voting wraps up at 5 p.m. Friday, but the group One Wisconsin Now is demanding that early voting hours be extended to accommodate the just over two hours for when the system was down. [WFRV-TV]
The people of Wisconsin ought not have their right to vote endangered by the incompetence of Gov. Scott Walker and his administration.
Officials at the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now and Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point) were among those who called on the GAB to ask for a court order to extend early voting hours due to the delay. [WKOW-TV]
They broke it and Governor Walker and his administration ought to do everything in their power to fix it. [The Nation]
“They’re trying to suppress the votes of students,” says Analiese Eicher, program director at One Wisconsin Now and a graduate of UW-Madison. “There’s no other reason.” [The Nation]
One Wisconsin Now Program Director Analiese Eicher said the potentially higher number of provisional ballots is concerning, noting that the 37 rejections already is an issue. [Associated Press]
According to the nonprofit One Wisconsin Now, the state’s DMV has created such a draconian bureaucratic voter-ID exemption process that many voters simply give up in anger and frustration. [DailyKos]
According to the nonprofit One Wisconsin Now, the state’s DMV has created such a draconian bureaucratic voter-ID exemption process that many voters simply give up in anger and frustration. [The Atlantic]
The voter ID law places the responsibility for issuing IDs on the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). But as HBO’s comedic pundit John Oliver and One Wisconsin Now (OWN) argue, the DMV isn’t up to the task. [Shepherd Express]
Scot Ross, executive director of progressive advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, testified against the bill, calling it a case of "raw partisan politics." [Wisconsin Public Radio]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, called it an effort to “rig” the 18th district race for political advantage. [Associated Press]
One Wisconsin institute, Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, and six Wisconsin residents filed a complaint against a series of provisions that Wisconsin has made since 2011 to its voting and election laws. [State of Elections]
Peterson wrote that the One Wisconsin Institute had "plausibly alleged that the decision to exclude certain forms of ID was impermissibly arbitrary." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
They argued a number of provisions Republicans have added to state election law violate the federal Voting Rights Act, the First Amendment and the equal protection clause. [Associated Press]
UW-Madison is not doing nearly as much as it can to mitigate the effects of the Republican Legislature’s attempt to suppress the student vote. [Capital Times]
The latest package of bills includes a measure making student and senior citizen voter registration more difficult.
Republican leaders, with the support of Scott Walker, are unveiling their latest scheme to manipulate election & ethics laws to gain unfair, partisan advantage.
The two are seeking to intervene and argue against a federal lawsuit filed by eight plaintiffs including One Wisconsin Institute seeking to protect Wisconsinites' right to vote.
Since 2011 laws have been passed in Wisconsin that embody a coordinated attempt to suppress the turnout of African-American, Latino, and young voters.
In a lawsuit filed on May 29, plaintiffs including the One Wisconsin Institute and the Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund challenged the many Walker-signed voting restrictions. [PR Watch]
With Scott Walker leading the charge, Wisconsin Republicans have systematically sought to make voting more difficult and manipulate state law.
Despite the numerous studies showing that Wisconsin has a serious problem with racial disparities, Scott Walker has not led on this issue.
We have fought Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican legislature throughout their unrelenting assault on the right to vote in Wisconsin and as long as they continue down this path, we will be there to fight.
Scot Ross says it’s harder to get a state ID in Wisconsin, in part because DMV offices don’t offer enough hours and locations for people to apply. [WUWM-FM]
One Wisconsin Institute has filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Supreme Court hearing an appeal of Wisconsin’s photo identification law, suspended from enforcement by the high court in October 2014.
Statements from One Wisconsin Now regarding the release of an independent audit of the GAB and subsequent comments of Republican legislative leaders.
Johnson’s comments were part of a consistent campaign by Republicans to suppress voter turnout through public statements and disenfranchisement legislation.
Our new video is targeting voters who care about issues like reproductive rights, student loan debt, marriage equality, minimum wage, worker and minority rights and clean government.
One Wisconsin Now is urging Wisconsin media to donate air time and ad space for photo ID education. “This is a great opportunity for the broadcasters that use the public airwaves to step up and do a great public service, helping ensure legal voters are able to cast their vote in November,” says One Wisconsin […] [The Progressive]
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross released the following statements following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision blocking implementation of Wisconsin’s photo ID law.
Mere weeks before the November elections, Gov. Walker and election regulators have chosen to impose a photo ID requirement.
One Wisconsin Now recorded speakers at a meeting of state Tea Party leaders talking about mailing minority and student voters inaccurate information in an effort to prevent them from voting. [Institute for Southern Studies]
Today the Federal 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, by a 5-5 vote, decided it will not hear en banc a challenge to the Wisconsin voter ID law.