Wisconsin votes to devote the requirement of the identification of voters in the constitution of the State

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press

Madison, Wisconsin (AP) – Wisconsin voters decided on Tuesday to devote the law on the identification of state voters in the constitution of the State.

The state also eliminated its senior education official, who will guide policies affecting kindergarten schools to the 12th year during the second term of President Donald Trump, will be elected Tuesday in a race between the holder supported by teachers and a critic supported by Le Républicain.

The two competitions had strong partisan divisions, although they attracted much less expenses and national attention than the race to control the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. The surveys closed at 8 p.m. CDT.

Here is an overview of the two competitions:

The long -standing law of the identification of voters devoted to the constitution of the State

The requirement for identifying the Wisconsin’s photo for the vote will be high from the law of the State to the constitutional amendment under a proposal approved by the voters.

The legislature controlled by the Republicans has placed the measure of the ballot and presented it as a means of strengthening the security of the elections and protecting the law against cancellations before the court.

Democratic opponents argued that photo identification requirements are often unjustly applied, making the vote more difficult for people of color, disabled and poor.

Wisconsin voters will not notice any change when they go to the polls. They will always have to present a valid photo identity document as they did under the law of the State, which was adopted in 2011 and came into force permanently in 2016 after a series of unsuccessful proceedings.

Placing the requirement for photo identification in the Constitution makes it more difficult for a future legislature controlled by Democrats to change the law. Any constitutional amendment must be approved during two consecutive legislative sessions and by a popular vote on a state level.

Republican legislators have celebrated the adoption of the measure.

“This will help maintain integrity into the electoral process, it doesn’t matter who controls the legislative assembly,” said senator Van Wanggaard, who co-wrote the amendment in a statement.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who leads Trump’s efforts to reduce the federal government, also noted the result on his social media platform, X, saying: “Yeah!”

Wisconsin is one of the nine states where people must present the photo to vote, and its requirement is the strictest in the country, according to the National Conference of States Legislatures. Thirty-six states have demanding laws or asking voters a kind of identification, according to the NCSL.

SOUCHING Advocate supported by the holder supported by a union

The breed to direct the Department of State for Public Education Stoppement Jill Jill underlying, which is supported by the Democrats and the Syndicat des Teachers, against consultant Brittany Kinser, a supporter of the Private Schools Program which is approved by the Republicans but which is called moderate.

Wisconsin is the only state where voters elect the senior education official, but there is no state education council. This gives the Superintendent a large authority to supervise the education policy, from the dispersion of school financing to the management of teachers’ licenses.

The winner will take up his duties at a time when the test results are always recovering from the pandemic, the success gap between white and black students remains the country’s worst and more schools ask voters to increase land taxes to pay operations.

The career in training in training began in 1999 as a teacher of social studies at the Lycée en Indiana. She moved to Wisconsin in 2005 and worked for five years in the State Education Department. She was also director of Pecatonica primary school for a year before becoming a district administrator.

Under 47 years, was elected superintendent of the State in 2021 and was approved by the Union, the Council of the Association of Wisconsin Education, as well as the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and many occupants Democrats.

Kinser, whose donors include the Republican Party of Wisconsin and former Republican governments. Tommy Thompson and Scott Walker bind to become the first person affiliated with the GOP to occupy the position of Superintendent in more than 30 years.

She worked for almost 10 years as a special education teacher and educational coach in Chicago public schools. After that, she spent 15 years in public charter schools in Chicago, California and Milwaukee.

In the Milwaukee region, Kinser has worked for rocket schools, which is part of a national network of institutions with a public charter and has become its executive director of the region.

In 2022, she left Rockethip for City Forward Collective, a non -profit organization in Milwaukee who advocates schools with charter and good. She also founded a consulting company where she is currently working.

Kinser, 47, tried to score subcontractor as a bad director of the Ministry of Public Education and contributed to her overhaul of the standards for the realization of the State last year.

According to an underlying, this was done to better reflect what students learn now, but the change was encountered with bipartite opposition, including Democratic Governor Tony Evers, who was previously the superintendent of the state himself. Evers did not make the approval in the race.

Kinser said the new standards had lowered the student mark and made more difficult to assess how schools and districts occur over time.

Underlying Kinser as nothing more than a lobbyist who does not care about public education. KINSER supports the school’s school and school program, to the Democrats, which opposes that these siphon programs needed money far from public schools.

Originally published: April 1, 2025 at 7:13 p.m.