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The case was remanded back to Judge Adelman of the federal Eastern District of Wisconsin for further proceedings. He gathered evidence as to the burden of the law. In July 2016 he issued an injunction against the voter ID law, "ruling citizens without an official ID may still cast ballots after signing an affidavit affirming their identity."
The researchers concluded, “Our findings indicate that strict identification laws will stop a disproportionately minority, otherwise-willing set of registered voters from voting.”
Across the country, sundry new laws (or soon-to-be laws like Indiana House Bill 1264) threaten to make voting more difficult. Indiana, though, has had strict voter identification laws since 2005.
A Super Tuesday voter in March near a sign requiring a photo ID at a polling place in Mount Holly, N.C. (Chris Carlson/AP, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
After the Supreme Court affirmed Indiana's law, states have adopted voter identification laws at an increasing rate. It also spurred research focused on voter ID laws and voter advocacy. Some research is centered on the timing of states' adoption of voter ID laws, while other research is on the partisanship of such laws. [9]
Wisconsin's voter ID law has been subject to litigation. Republican lawmakers and former GOP Gov. Scott Walker enacted the state's first photo ID law for voting in 2011, but it wasn't until the ...
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), is a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...
Under the 2022 law, people with a valid government-issued photo ID are still able to submit provisional ballots, which will be counted if they return later that day with a photo ID or if election ...