Appeals court reverses Wisconsin voting restrictions rulings
Source: AP
By TODD RICHMOND
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A federal appeals court panel upheld a host of Republican-authored voting restrictions in Wisconsin on Monday, handing conservatives a significant win in a pair of lawsuits just months before residents in the battleground state cast their ballots for president.
The three-judge panel all Republican appointees found that the state can restrict early voting hours and restored a requirement that people must live in a district for 28 days, not 10, before they can vote. The panel also said emailing and faxing absentee ballots is unconstitutional.
The states photo ID requirement for voters wasnt in question, although the panel did find that expired student IDs are acceptable at the polls and kept intact an option that allows people to vote without an ID if they show an affidavit saying they tried to obtain one.
Judge Frank Easterbrook, who wrote the opinion, noted that the restrictions dont burden people in the state, where voters still enjoy more ways to register, long poll hours on Election Day and absentee voting options than in other states.
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a kennedy
(29,615 posts)and the fun just keeps coming eh??? That damn X Governor, Wanker.
DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)A text book example of just what the RepubliCONs are accomplishing when they appoint all their Rightwing, fanatical Republican Judges to the APPELATE courts.
BTW: this was going on for a long time before Trump. McConnell just perfected it and has been ramming them through daily for three years. Two hundred so far, and Moscow Mitch is trying for 300 before the election.......
cp
(6,616 posts)Or worked a second or third shift. Or knows anyone whom this burdens.
Fecking Wanker!
sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)cstanleytech
(26,234 posts)That aside the problem is with authenticating them to make sure that they are in fact valid.