Voting photo ID law under injunction, likely through November

Wisconsin’s photo ID voting law may be on hold until after the November elections, after another court ruling Tuesday.

Dane County judge David Flanagan has made his temporary injunction against the Republican-backed photo ID law a permanent injunction. That means any appeal of the new ruling, as well as a challenge to another court’s blocking of photo ID, may not be resolved for many months. The Milwaukee-based group Voces de la Frontera filed one of the challenges to the ID law. Christine Neumann-Ortiz of Voces says the new ruling comes as she believes corporations have too much power in politics.

NAACP attorney Richard Saks says he believes Judge Flanagan found that Wisconsin should not have to follow Indiana’s photo ID law, contrary to what the Wisconsin Justice Department has argued.

Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen may appeal Flanagan’s permanent injunction, as Van Hollen is challenging the other Wisconsin court ruling halting photo ID requirements to vote.