Risk of Voter Suppression Resurfaces: Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Reinstate Voter ID Law

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2012-08-24

<div class='node-body'><p>Wisconsin&#39;s Republican Attorney General is fighting to get vote-suppressing laws in place for the November election, <a href="http://www.doj.state.wi.us/absolutenm/templates/template_share.aspx?articleid=3005&amp;zoneid=1" target="_blank" title="reference on asking">asking</a> the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reinstate the voter ID law that has been found unconstitutional by two separate state judges, despite that Court rejecting a similar request in recent months.<br />
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