Way to go Wisconsin – The voter ID debate is now over

I do not have a fishing license because I don’t fish. I don’t have a hunting license because I don’t hunt. I don’t have a concealed firearm license because I’ve never held a gun in my life.

Yet according to voter ID opponents, my rights to hunt, fish and protect myself are being suppressed because I don’t hold licenses to do these things. Perhaps it’s a secret plot on behalf of Wisconsin’s trout to keep me from tempting them with a delicious worm.

And Wisconsin turnout was quite high btw:

On April 5 in Wisconsin, the dire warning that the new voter ID law would suppress votes was exposed as a fraud; nearly 700,000 more people showed up to vote than in 2008, the last time both parties held presidential primaries — an increase of nearly 50%. It was the largest spring primary turnout in Wisconsin since 1972.

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If the goal of voter ID was to suppress voting, it failed spectacularly. But that still leaves a small portion of voters on the other side of Stevens’ equation — those who are unable to get the required photo ID for voting. This week, a federal panel of 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judges upheld Wisconsin’s voter ID law, but said individuals in the small subset of citizens who had great difficulty in getting photo identification still should be allowed to cast ballots.

Progress.