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News » Sup. Court decision could effect recall election
Apr. 17, 2012
The state's high court won't weigh in on a pair of lawsuits over the constitutionality of the state's voter ID law, until two appeals courts make their rulings.
Justices on the state Supreme Court made that decision yesterday.
Dane County judges in both of the cases issued injunctions to keep the law from taking effect.
The appeals courts asked the Supreme Court to take the cases directly.
Jay Heck of the government watchdog group Common Cause says the decision doesn't necessarily mean that voters won't have to show a photo ID to vote in the recall elections.
One of the lawsuits claims that requiring voters to show a certain form of photo ID at the polls would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of people. The other argues that the law creates a new class of people that are ineligible to vote. |
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