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Requirements for photo identification at the polls. although it's been subject to so much challenge legally it hasn't actually been fully implemented and in fact last week commonwealth court ruled that it was unconstitutional because it put too much of a burden on people's right to vote. >> the judge said voting laws are designed to ensure free and fair election and the voter i.d. law does not further this goal. >> that's a direct quote, exactly. and up -- >> go ahead, i didn't mean to cut you off. >> go ahead. that's been the thrust of our voting policy in the state for the last couple of yea...

Of the assassination of medgar evans, the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act, and two years of the voting rights act, it's a moment for us to recognize that those watershed moments are ones that fundamentally changed the course of america, influenced the way we live today, but at the same time, the core provisions to the protection of our voting rights, like section five, are now falling. so congress should receive in this moment the challenge that is presented to it, as it has this week, to fix what the supreme court did in shelby county. >> i want to appropriate a legal question just a...

Some of the highest rates of voter participation in the nation. with with near record turnout on election day last year. with those numbers, it would seem a prudent approach to voting policy in wisconsin if it ain't broke, don't fix it. except for one law mamaker in wisconsin seems to think that the rules could still use a little tinkering to make it so that fewer people could vote? currently in wisconsin early voting begins two weeks before election day and ends on the friday beforehand and early voting hours in that window are varied across the state and determined by municipal clerks. some ...

Governor decided we're not continuing on that statement. here is the thing about it, in 2007 when the supreme court looked that law from indiana, one of the things they said, just because it's a party line vote, only republicans doing it, doesn't mean it's inappropriate. what you need for a constitutional challenge to succeed, is evidence that the goal was election geared. >> the question is whether it's dispirate it matters from housing policy to voting policy to education policy if dispirate impact could still stand as a supreme court decision, and it's not clear in this court you can make a...