The only thing the laws passed by Gov. Walker and the GOP-controlled legislature are stopping is legal voters from having their voices heard on election day.
In the Wisconsin voting rights case, a series of voter suppression laws enacted into law by Wisconsin Republicans since 2011 are challenged. [MAL Contends]
Election clerks from predominantly white suburbs of Milwaukee testified Tuesday in support of new state voting laws. [Associated Press]
Plaintiffs are arguing that lawmakers intended to discriminate against non-white voters by passing the voter ID requirement. [Capital Times]
Recent Wisconsin laws limiting voting hours and requiring people to present ID at the polls, taken together, amount to state-sponsored discrimination. [Associated Press]
Wisconsin Republicans created a bureaucratic labyrinth to both deny legal voters the ID cards they need and to give themselves an unfair partisan advantage.
Some voters might not have been able to cast ballots this fall if not for a new state rule put in place on the eve of a trial over Wisconsin's voter ID law, the official responsible for issuing ID cards testified Monday. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
In federal court today, a leading national scholar on voting fraud testified that there have been zero cases of in-person voter impersonation in Wisconsin.
You have to hand it to the liberal political research group One Wisconsin [Institute]... So effective was the testimony at trial, it grabbed headlines and could change access to the ballot—and the even the outcome of the next elections. [The Progressive]
"These DMV statistics show there's a disturbing pattern of voters being denied the franchise," said Mike Browne, deputy director of the liberal One Wisconsin Institute, one of the plaintiffs. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
People who die waiting for a state-issued voter ID are recorded as a "customer-initiated cancellation" by the state Department of Motor Vehicles. [Capital Times]
In testimony in the federal voting rights case, experts agreed that, “it’s working” when it comes to the campaign by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature to suppress votes.
A federal judge heard testimony Tuesday from Wisconsin residents who have faced difficulties obtaining photo IDs for themselves or family members. [Capital Times]
Wisconsin election laws on trial in federal court this week likely violate the federal Voting Rights Act. [Wisconsin State Journal]
In federal court yesterday, the plaintiffs offered testimony from a former high level Republican staffer who revealed that Republican state senators were “giddy” at the prospect of passing a voter ID law.
A federal trial for the first time introduces evidence of the intent of Republicans to use photo voter ID to block voters by citing the words of Republican legislators [MAL Contends]
Plaintiffs in the suit include One Wisconsin Institute, the research arm of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Wisconsin State Journal]
State defendants called the GOP voter laws fair as the liberal [One Wisconsin Institute] challenges voter IDs and other laws like a ten-day limit on early voting. [Hudson Star-Observer]
Scott Walker’s Republican legislative allies were “giddy” at the prospect that a radical rewrite of voting laws would benefit their political prospects. [The Nation]
Liberal Group One Wisconsin Institute social justice group Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund and 10 voters filed the lawsuit last June. [Associated Press]
Plaintiffs are arguing that restrictions adopted by Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled legislature were meant to and have the effect of making it more difficult to vote.
Todd Allbaugh – the first witness One Wisconsin Institute called – claims lawmakers adopted new requirements to discriminate against traditionally Democratic voters. [Courthouse News Service]
The lawsuit was brought by the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute Inc., social justice group Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund and 10 voters. [Associated Press]
The lawsuit was brought by One Wisconsin Institute which argues state officials intentionally meant to make it harder for minorities to cast ballots. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Liberal group One Wisconsin Institute, Inc. filed the lawsuit last June. U.S. District Judge James Peterson has scheduled a bench trial to begin Monday in Madison. [Associated Press]
One Wisconsin Institute executive director Scot Ross... accused the Walker administration of repeatedly manipulating voting rules to gain a partisan advantage. [Associated Press]
A judge determined One Wisconsin Institute could keep alive their arguments that voters should be able to use a broader range of IDs for voting. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The move comes just days before the state goes to trial over a challenge to Wisconsin's Voter ID law by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, which claims that obtaining a state ID is so difficult some would-be eligible voters are simply giving up. [WKOW-TV]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said OWN lawyers are reviewing the new rule. [Wisconsin State Journal]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]