Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Trial Set To Begin As State Concedes It Has No Proof Of In-Person Voter Fraud
Defendants in a case against one of the nation's strictest voter ID laws in Pennsylvania made a major concession to plaintiffs this week, just days ahead of the start of the trial over the measure.
In a stipulation agreement signed earlier this month, state officials conceded that they had no evidence of prior in-person voter fraud, or even any reason to believe that such crimes would occur with more frequency if a voter ID law wasn't in effect.
"There have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states,” the statement reads.
According to the agreement, the state “will not offer any evidence in this action that in-person voter fraud has in fact occurred in Pennsylvania and elsewhere,” nor will it "offer argument or evidence that in-person voter fraud is likely to occur in November 2012 in the absense [sic] of the Photo ID law.”
Weeeellllllll, No Fraud? No argument that it even MIGHT occur? No proof that it HAS occurred?
What's a Republican legislature to do? Better call up ALEC and see if they have any ideas....
In the meantime, I rather suspect the DoJ will find what the State GOP party chairman has already admitted...That the purpose was to disenfranchise voters in an attempt to hand Romney the win, and nullify these voter-suppression laws.
