Is it me, or has there just generally been less anguish on DU about problems voting in WI? [View all]

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Here is a good article summarizing the non-sensical voter ID issues in WI

'In Tuesday’s primary election, Wisconsin saw its highest voter turnout in decades, leading Gov. Scott Walker (R) to boast that it’s “easy to vote” in his state. But many voters were burdened or disenfranchised by the state’s newly-implemented and poorly publicized voter ID law, which disproportionately impacts the state’s low-income voters of color.
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Sean Young, the lead attorney on the case, previously argued that Wisconsin’s voter ID law should be struck down entirely. Some federal courts agreed, comparing the law to a poll tax, but the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the law to stand. Now, the ACLU is arguing that individual categories of people should be allowed to challenge the law and demand accommodations that enable them to vote.

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.... “We haven’t had the right to vote depend on the whims of an individual bureaucrat since the days of the Jim Crow literacy test.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/08/3766577/wisconsin-voting-problems/