Wis DOJ starts voter ID appeal process

MADISON (AP) -- The battle over voter ID in the state of Wisconsin is not over yet. On Monday, July 23rd, the state Justice Department began the appeals process of a Madison judge's order to block Wisconsin's new voter identification law.

Last year, Republicans passed a bill that requires all voters to show photo ID at the polls. Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan ruled last week that the law impedes on the right to vote.

J.B. Van Hollen, the Republican Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department, says that the law is constitutional. The agency filed an appeal notice with the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Waukesha, a Republican stronghold.

The notice begins the appeals process.

Van Hollen is also appealing the blockage of the law by another Madison judge in a different lawsuit.

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