The voter ID law was called into question Tuesday as advocacy groups filed an emergency appeal on the grounds of racial inequality.
The League of United Latin American Citizens of Wisconsin and the American Civil Liberties Union pushed for an emergency motion of a rehearing in front of all of the judges of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in order to halt voter ID regulations for the upcoming statewide election.
The groups cited the impossibility of organizing the new regulation, detailing the time before the election was not enough to train poll workers, manufacture IDs and publicize the need for an ID, according to the appeal.
The coalition highlighted the discriminatory factor of the law by explaining the difficulties racial minorities could face obtaining proper identification. Minorities’ lack of IDs combined with the new legislation requirement violate people’s constitutional rights to vote, according to the appeal.
An earlier appeal’s decision is expected to come out later in the week, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
