Republican lawmakers continued their swift work Wednesday to enshrine voter photo identification laws in the Wisconsin Constitution with the Senate passing the proposal on the floor and the Assembly holding a public hearing on it.

Wisconsin Senate Republicans — worried about potential future actions that could weaken current laws — pushed forward a proposal Tuesday to amend the state constitution to require that voters provide photo identification when casting their ballots.

Republican lawmakers are seeking to codify the state's voter ID law into the constitution to protect it from future challenges.

Voter ID laws are another measure Wisconsin GOP lawmakers look to amend in the constitution, and by Spring of 2025. The law that is more than a decade old is something state assembly members Rob Summerfield, Clint Moses and Duke Tucker call popular and common sense for election security.

Wisconsin’s latest proposed constitutional amendment is on the fast track to the voters. The Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday approved the proposal to ask voters whether they want to constitutionally protect the state’s voter ID law.

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are moving quickly to place a measure on the April ballot that would enshrine the state’s already strict voter ID requirement into the state constitut

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would reinforce the state’s strict voter photo ID laws.