Federal judge strikes down Wisconsin voter ID law

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that Wisconsin's Act 23 [text, PDF], which requires residents to present photo identification to vote, violates the Voting Rights Act and the US Constitution. US District Judge Lynn Adelman found that the requirement violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act [DOJ backgrounder], which prohibits states from imposing or applying "any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice,...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/federal-judge-strikes-down-wisconsin-voter-id-law.php

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