Will Flanders with the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty examined voter turnout in Wisconsin over a 20-year period, beginning with the 2004 presidential election, and found no evidence of turnout suppression.
In 2011, Wisconsin implemented a law that mandated voters to show photo IDs when voting, and on April 1, Wisconsinites will be voting to enshrine this law into the state’s constitution.
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“By analyzing decades of election data both before and after Wisconsin implemented Voter ID, we found a general rise in voter turnout, rather than the widespread disenfranchisement that critics often suggest,” Flanders said in a statement. “Any claims suggesting Voter ID is ‘voter suppression’ are merely political scare tactics aimed at
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