(AP) — A federal appeals court should leave its decision allowing Wisconsin election officials to implement the state's voter photo identification law alone, state Department of Justice attorneys argued Tuesday. Changing course now, this close to the election and with preparations already underway to implement the law, would confuse election officials and voters, the attorneys wrote in a court filing in response to a request that the court reconsider its decision. Democrats have countered that no widespread fraud exists in the state and the law is really designed to prevent Democratic-leaning constituencies such as the poor and elderly who lack IDs from voting. The state Supreme Court in July found the law was constitutional and a three-judge panel from the 7th U.S.