It's nice that WI is trying to pass the requirement that all voting systems have a paper record backup requirement. The massive security holes in e-voting machines have been legendary. Even worse is the companies promoting their products trying to use lawsuits and copyright laws to block these holes from becoming public knowledge.
I personally think this may pass as the governor may be willing to throw this out there as crumbs as he and his party to try to stave off the one truly meaningful reform that we've been trying to pass here in WI.
What WI really needs is a photo ID requirement at the polls. It seems simple enough. You need one for most everything else these days. You can't rent a video, or write a check for your groceries without one, but you can vote? There is of course the inevitable cries that Voter ID = racism, classisim, voter disenfranchisement of the sick, disabled, elderly.. etc. etc. etc.
Of course, the poor, disabled, and the elderly often managed to navigate all sorts of government lines and forms for welfare, SSI, Medicare, Medicaid etc. and if anything, deal with the govt. bureaucracy much more than the average middle class working voter ever does. So how is having a photo ID requirment a hardship? The drafters of the legislation have even made provisions for free ID for anyone too poor to pay the ten dollars or so the state would charge.
I don't know how things are in the rest of the country. However, it's been well known for years that around here, and especially our neighbor to the south, Chicago, that one party predominantly is the beneficiary of vote fraud while the other is not. And our current governor is of that party. Go figure.
WI also has, "same day" registration BTW. Essentially you can register and immediately vote on election day. All you need to do is fill out and sign a registration card and show any piece of mail at that address such as a utility bill, and I'm not certain they even need that. Your vote isn't tied to the registration either, so a bad (i.e. fake) registrant doesn't get their vote kicked out if the registration is found to be invalid. So when others who have pre-registration for voting, and an ID requirement to at least register, they don't really understand how laughably fraud prone WI's system is. If we at least had a pre-registration requirment, I wouldn't be so concerned about the lack of ID, but having nether is electoral suicide IMO.
Besides the one party being afraid of losing their margins from their dead, felon and fraud, constituencies, they're afraid how obvious it will be when the results from an election cycle pre-ID and an election post-ID will be.