In A Supreme Election, Wisconsin Voters Will Decide Voter ID Question

While Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is in the national spotlight, there’s an important election integrity issue on Tuesday’s ballot as well. In fact, election law watchdogs will tell you that the Supreme Court race and a referendum on enshrining the Badger State’s voter ID law into the Wisconsin constitution go hand-in-hand.

“They really are bound together in this election,” Annette Olson, chief executive officer of the Madison-based MacIver Institute, told The Federalist Monday in a phone interview.

The conservative think tank has been advocating for the election integrity ballot question for years. It’s taken a while to get here.

Proposed amendments to the state’s constitution must be approved in two consecutive sessions of the legislature. The Republican-controlled assembly and Senate have passed the measure twice. Now the question is in the hands of the voters. Ballot questions do not require the approval of the governor, which would have been the death knell for the voter ID provision. Democrat Gov. Tony Evers, a dutiful servant of the far left, surely would have vetoed it. (Read more from “In A Supreme Election, Wisconsin Voters Will Decide Voter ID Question” HERE)

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