A U.S. federal court judge shot down the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) push to have technical college IDs, out-of-state driver's licenses and veterans' photo IDs all declared as permissible options to Wisconsin's strict voter ID laws. 

According to the Associated Press, Judge Lynn Adelman denied the ACLU's request. In the decision, Adelman wrote officials for the ID expansion "had not explicitly stated technical college IDs aren't acceptable." He added the ACLU's argument in support of out-of-state driver's licenses is irrelevant because most of the objecting plaintiffs also have U.S. passports and other forms of identification that could serve the same purpose as their veteran photo IDs.

Immediately following Adelman's ruling, Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, insisted that the organization now plans to seek others ways of challenging the law.

"Wisconsinites face barriers to the polls due to the limited forms of ID mandated under the state's restrictive voter ID law," he said in a statement. "It's unconscionable that even veterans, who have so valiantly served our country, can't use their government-issued IDs under this law. People should have a broader range of common-sense options."

It's been two years since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a Voting Rights Act provision that regulated states with a history of voter discrimination. Since then, several states, most of them with Republican-led legislatures, have passed strict voter ID laws that many argue disproportionately affect Democratic and racial minority voters.

Earlier this month, Alabama, which already requires voters to show state-issued photo ID cards, announced it plans to also shutter several Department of Motor Vehicles voting locations that have historically serviced black Democratic voters.

In the past, federal courts have struck down voter ID laws that were found to target minority voters. As recently as August, a New Orleans federal appeals court ruled a 2014 Texas law requiring voters to have specific IDs in order to cast their votes was discriminatory because the stipulation did not include IDs commonly used by minorities and students.