Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias Among Those Behind Major New Voting Rights Lawsuit in Wisconsin
Our gov Walker has implemented photo ID. cut back hours for voting, cut back on DMV voter registration hours.. He has followed the ALEC model to the T!!--along with other state RED govenorss!!!
Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias Among Those Behind Major New Voting Rights Lawsuit in Wisconsin
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72945
Posted on May 29, 2015 1:27 pm by Rick Hasen
Here is how the complaint for the lawsuit filed in federal court in Wisconsin begins:
This lawsuit concerns the most fundamental of rights guaranteed citizens in our representative democracy—the right to vote. That right has been under attack in Wisconsin since Republicans gained control of the governor’s office and both houses of the State Legislature in the 2010 election. Indeed, since 2011, the State of Wisconsin has twice reduced in-person absentee (“early”) voting, introduced restrictions on voter registration, changed its residency requirements, enacted a law that encourages invasive poll monitoring, eliminated straight-ticket voting, eliminated for most (but not all) citizens the option to obtain an absentee ballot by fax or email, and imposed a voter identification (“voter ID”) requirement. These measures were intended to burden, abridge, and deny, and have had and will have the effect of burdening, abridging, and denying, the voting rights of Wisconsinites generally and of African-American, Latino, young, and/or Democratic voters in Wisconsin in particular.
As set forth below, these and the other provisions challenged in this Complaint (the “challenged provisions”) violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, and/or the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment, and/or the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The challenged provisions should therefore be declared illegal and enjoined.
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