SCOTUS Works.

Eliminate fraud where it exists.
But don't discourage the overall vote.
States differ.  Uneducated, rural, transient, elderly, homeless ... you still should be allowed to vote, if you are who you say you are without having to get special government ID cards to prove it up:

Wisconsin voters won’t need a photo ID to cast a ballot on Nov. 4 after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a split decision Thursday night halting the requirement.

The 6-3 decision* came nearly a month after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the law, which had been on hold since a district judge ruled in April it was an unconstitutional barrier to voting.
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“This is wonderful news and a victory for voters in Wisconsin,” said Andrea Kaminski, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, which filed a lawsuit challenging the voter ID requirement.

“Clearly there was not time for election officials to educate voters, prepare new materials and implement the law, especially when the election was already underway,” Kaminski said.

“We should be seeking ways to get more citizens to vote in our elections, not to keep them away.”

Now before those of you in more sophisticated states, who can't fathom somebody not having an acceptable government ID and believe OF COURSE, EVERYBODY WILL CHEAT given the opportunity, consider this:

The student ID cards at the UW campuses -- with photo attached, and good for 4 years with a sticker updating every year you've re-enrolled -- were not going to be acceptable to vote this year.  The bigger campuses were scrambling to assist students with getting an acceptable non-drivers-license photo ID card just for voting on Nov. 4, if students had neither the time, nor the transportation, to go off-campus and sit for hours at the local DMV. Talk about a special burden to vote!

Who would want to encourage students to vote back in their parents' hometowns, instead of for the politicians who are allegedly supposed to represent their interests as students of a state?

Thank you, Supreme Court Justices, for eliminating one of the hurdles to be jumped though, for those who want to vote to keep Wisconsin local, and eliminate the continuing sell-off to out-of-state interests.  Walker might win, but there's no reason to throw the rules out the door to help him.

Voting, like non-gender-discrimination in civil marriage, is a basic right. (Ask the kids!)
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* Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan.

Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas cast dissenting votes, but acknowledged “there is a colorable basis for the Court’s decision due to the proximity of the upcoming general election.”

“It is particularly troubling that absentee ballots have been sent out without any notation that proof of photo identification must be submitted,” the dissenting justices wrote.
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The decision is not the court’s final word on the 2011 law. Thursday’s ruling was on the issue of whether to stay the appellate court’s decision before the Supreme Court makes a final decision, but it did not address the merits of the case, said Larry Dupuis, lawyer for the ACLU, which with the Advancement Project sought emergency blockage of the law. ...

“The only thing you can absolutely infer from this is they recognized trying to implement this complicated law … (in the upcoming election) would be electoral disaster,” he said.

We call that "Law in Action" here in Wisconsin.
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