MADISON — The Republican authors of a new voter ID bill that passed the Wisconsin state Assembly, but not the Senate, said Tuesday they plan to reintroduce the legislation after the November elections.
Reps. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, and Michael Schraa, R-Oshkosh, wrote in a column they distributed by email that they believe their bill is constitutional because it’s based on an Indiana law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Born and Schraa also responded to a criticism of their bill by state Sen. Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, who is running for Congress and authored the state’s current voter ID law that passed in 2011.
Leibham said last week, after a federal judge struck down the law, that he believes the current law is constitutional and the new bill would create “such a big loophole in the voter ID requirement” that the system would be “substantially similar to the one we have now.”
