{"id":15361,"date":"2025-02-18T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:58:10","slug":"court-watch-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-save-or-destroy-voter-id-and-election-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15361","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: The Wisconsin Supreme Court Can Save Or Destroy Voter ID and Election Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-save-or-destroy-voter-id-and-election-integrity\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-save-or-destroy-voter-id-and-election-integrity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Voter-ID.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7008 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Voter-ID-1-232x300-1.png\" alt width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Delafield, Wis.<\/b><span> \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Voter-ID.pdf\"><span>\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer <\/span><\/a><span>detailing the Wisconsin Supreme Court\u2019s actions on Voter ID and Election integrity on Tuesday. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Voter-ID.pdf\"><span>primer<\/span><\/a><span> outlines how the current liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has already reversed two key election law cases, and more could be in the pipeline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/b> <span>The rules for Wisconsin\u2019s elections are written into state law, so they are frequently interpreted and applied by Wisconsin courts. That means Voter ID, absentee balloting, redistricting, and decisions from the Wisconsin Elections Commission often end up in court. The liberal majority has already overturned a key election integrity case that had limited the use of absentee ballot drop boxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cWisconsinites support Voter ID because it provides a safeguard to ensure free and fair elections with transparent and verifiable results,\u201d<\/b><span> said Jake Curtis, General Counsel and Director of IRG\u2019s CIO. <\/span><b>\u201cThe Wisconsin Supreme Court\u2019s recent actions to overturn election law precedent should be concerning to supporters of Voter ID.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT\u2019S NEXT: <\/b><span>State courts impact everyday Wisconsinites\u2019 lives and IRG\u2019s new Court Watch initiative will lead in educating on the importance of the judicial branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Voter-ID.pdf\"><b>Read the primer here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-save-or-destroy-voter-id-and-election-integrity\/ Delafield, Wis. \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15364,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions\/15364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}