Huge Victory: Voter ID Requirements Passes in Wisconsin by Wide Margin

[playtime]

having nan ID for voting is required here in little ol' blue OG 13, connecticut & has been for several years. i am in favor of it as long as those that don't have a license or state issued ID can obtain one without having to pay for it... otherwise it's akin to being a modern jim crow law.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Crawford will okay it.

IDK, finding it hard to give a crap about that at this point.
Meh.

 

[odanny]

Wonder why the MSM didn't mention that result?

They didn't even mention it was on the ballot, and to be honest, the Supreme Court vote was likely newsworthy as it was because President Musk was busy giving away million dollar checks to lucky voters.

Do we think the winners have already been DOGE'd and the millions are now frozen in accounts, pending "further review"?

 

[odanny]

Democrats will gerrymander and eliminate two GOP seats in Congress. That's a big deal.

Says the guy who brags he has hot girlfriend's and is in his 30's, says he is from Wisconsin, and all the music he posts is from the 60's and 70's.

You aint fooling me troll.

 

[Woodznutz]

The GOP lost the Supreme Court vote, and Elon was the reason why.

Schimel was defeated by an abortion rights candidate. No surprise.

 

[JGalt]

Winning.

Only half of a win, but I'll take it.

 

[martybegan]

They were too busy mentioning that the democrat supreme court nominee won.

This win partially negates the left's court win, because now the court can't say the voter ID law is unconstitutional due to the State Constitution.

Opponents would have to go to federal court and get the SC to say it's unconstitutional.

 

[JGalt]

From what I read its passage keeps things the way they are presently.

From back in February this was written about the amendment:

Wisconsin already has a state statute that requires voters to present an acceptable photo ID in order to vote. By constitutionalizing this requirement, the amendment would, if approved, make it more difficult for a future legislature or court to change course on voter ID.

Not quite. Voter ID was only a law on the books, which could be overturned. It's now codified in the state constitution. If the proposition doesn't change anything, why would the left have been so adamantly apposed to it? They claimed for some reason that it would make it more likely to disenfranchise certain groups of people who are less likely to have a valid photo ID. Like seniors, students, rural residents, low-income people, people of color and people with disabilities. Which is bunk.

 

[g5000]

Huge Victory: Voter ID Requirements Passes in Wisconsin by Wide Margin​

Huge victory?

Voter ID does ****-all to stop the kinds of voter fraud which occurs.

For example, Trump created illegal fake electors in Wisconsin in 2020.

Tell us how Voter ID would have stopped or prevented that.

Wisconsin’s 2020 Fraudulent Electors Acknowledge Their Votes Were Used in Effort to Undermine a Presidential Election, Settle with Plaintiffs​

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[airplanemechanic]

What was lost? BFD, who cares?

With this victory, they can redo the district lines and eliminate two republican house seats. That slims the GOP margin over dems quite a bit.

 

[martybegan]

With this victory, they can redo the district lines and eliminate two republican house seats. That slims the GOP margin over dems quite a bit.

In 2030. Unless there is a case coming up this year or next.

Also in 2030 this would be offset by the loss of districts in CA and NY and those moving to Florida and Texas.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Says the guy who brags he has hot girlfriend's and is in his 30's, says he is from Wisconsin, and all the music he posts is from the 60's and 70's.

You aint fooling me troll.

Dude, they talked about on Fox this morning.

Here’s what Susan Crawford’s state Supreme Court win means for Wisconsin

Liberals will control the court until at least 2028 — with implications for abortion rights, congressional redistricting, labor rights and the environment.

wisconsinwatch.org

2. Congressional redistricting​

The liberal majority’s decision to throw out the state’s Republican-gerrymandered legislative maps, breaking a GOP lock on the state Legislature, has been its most influential ruling since taking power. As a result, Democrats picked up 14 seats in the Assembly and state Senate in 2024 in a good Republican year nationwide.

 

[Muhammed]

The GOP lost the Supreme Court vote, and Elon was the reason why.

The lack of a voter ID requirement is obviously the reason why. Wisconsin is flipping red.

 

[Mashmont]

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Wisconsin voters have overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine the state’s voter ID requirement.

The amendment passed with approximately 70% support, reflecting a broad consensus among Wisconsinites on the importance of safeguarding elections.

Currently, Wisconsin requires voter photo identification via state law. By adding it to the state constitution, the threshold to make changes or remove the requirement would be higher than a legislative majority by requiring voter approval of another constitutional amendment to do so. State law requires the following forms of photo identification to vote:

• Wisconsin driver’s license,
• ID card issued by a U.S. uniformed service,
• Wisconsin nondriver ID,
• U.S. passport,
• Certificate of naturalization issued not more than two years before the election,
• ID card issued by a federally recognized Indian tribe in Wisconsin,
• Student ID card with a signature, an issue date, and an expiration date no later than two years after the election, or
• Photo ID card provided by the Veteran’s Health Administration.

Well now, it would seem that the most important matter before WI voters was not the SC election.

Even 55% of WI dems supported it.

This is a problem that has to be defeated. With voter photo ID, Democrats can't win.

 

[okfine]

They were too busy mentioning that the democrat supreme court nominee won.

Wrong. The media is saying that the Muskrat paid $20 million for a judge and lost.

 

[bendog]

Musk had a great day. roflmao

 

[my2¢]

If the proposition doesn't change anything, why would the left have been so adamantly apposed to it?

I have doubts about the "adamantly" part. According to the OP, 55% of the Democrats were in support of the amendment. Unfortunately I had no luck with a quick search of how much $$$ the left poured into the effort to defeat the measure. Strictly a guess that most of their dough went towards the state's Supreme Court race. (I had suspected that Elon Musk might cause a backlash knowing how Arizonans' feel about outsiders getting involved in our business. I believed he should have stayed away.)

Back to the "adamant" part, Wisconsin seems to me as a rather level-headed state and so I checked and confirmed my suspicion it has been a while since its legislature was in the hands of the Democrats. I figure Wisconsin is sane enough to keep it that way and the amendment simply had to do with pacifying the 2020 complainers.

So while I've nothing against the move to set the photo-id law in stone, I simply don't see it as that big of a deal. My issue is purely with the media, Lou Dobbs in this particular case. I take the article as being just another work of a professional partisan who is blowing smoke.

 

[JGalt]

Wrong. The media is saying that the Muskrat paid $20 million for a judge and lost.

Of course the "media" won't tell you how out of state money funded Crawford’s campaign for $19.4 million, which was more than double that of Schimel’s $8.9 million.

In other words, Wisconsin liberals just bought them a shiny new left-wing activist judge, and someone else paid for it.

 

[odanny]

"Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy."

Congratulations on your victory, your Honor.

 

[odanny]

Wrong. The media is saying that the Muskrat paid $20 million for a judge and lost.

Inflation. Money don't go far these days, next time it needs to be $50 million.