Wisconsin voters want the state’s voter ID law enshrined in the Badger State constitution.
Not long after the polls closed, Decision Desk HQ projected the referendum question would win big. With 86 percent of the vote tally counted, yes votes were leading 62.8 percent to 37.2 percent, according to the New York Times.
The numbers tracked along polling lines. A recent Marquette University Law School poll found 77 percent of Wisconsin voters surveyed said they support a photo ID requirement to vote, with just 22 percent opposed. Support over the past dozen years — through a dozen polls — has been high, with the lowest level of approval for photo ID at 58 percent in October 2014.
The ballot question asked whether the state constitution
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