Judge Deals Big Blow to PA Voter ID Law

"Bomp, bomp, bomp...Another one bites the dust..."

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Ruling: Judge Halts Enforcement Of Law For Election

A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday postponed the enforcement of the state's new strict voter ID requirement until after the November presidential election.

In a much-anticipated ruling, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. ordered that voters without government-issued photo ID should be allowed to cast regular ballots.

"That's a huge win," said Witold J. Walczak, an attorney with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, "because last week the judge was suggesting that he was going to have every [voter without ID] vote provisionally."

The voter ID bills, like similar moves to restrict voter registration, eliminate early voting, purge voter rolls and send pollwatchers into minority precincts. All are ostensibly intended to prevent voter fraud, an almost nonexistent problem according to research on the issue. In contrast, such moves have a disproportionate effect on minorities and young voters, and ultimately serve to block legitimate but probably Democratic voters from exercising their constitutional rights.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/0 ... 19187.html

Gee, I guess the fact that the State even admitted that there was not a single case of in-person voter-ID fraud in DECADES didn't sway the court that a law-in-search-of-a-problem was needed.

More military absentee voters will be disenfrachised than people without photo ID in Pennsylvania but why aren't the liberal media all over this?

You, of course, have proof of that...

I guess the "liberal media" aren't all over it because it's just another hysterical unproven talking point. If PA wants to screw it's military citizens serving abroad, then perhaps people should take that up with the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE ...

Mittens couldn't be bothered with the active-duty military during the RNC Convention; and I guess the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE can't be bothered with them either. Why aren't the conservative media all over this and griping about what the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE is doing?

FredHayek wrote: More military absentee voters will be disenfrachised than people without photo ID in Pennsylvania but why aren't the liberal media all over this?

Not anymore than they ever are.

I figured they'd go this route but am glad to hear it confirmed - I've got the proper ID but an astounding number of people don't and they waited until last week to start sending out instructions on what now constitutes proper ID and how to get it. Long, long lines at DMV stations and a hardship to get to them if you don't drive or have to take away time from your job to go there and spend hours waiting in lines. I've really got no problem with having to show proper ID to vote but you can't change the rules so close to an election without creating chaos.

Colorado has been allowing provisional ballots for over a decade as do most states that require photo ID.
It is just funny with 50% of adults not bothering to vote, the Dems are whining about the 1% without photo ID.

Astounding number without photo ID? Hardly. Are your contemporaries in daycare?

The courts have already determined that the burdens on the elderly, the poor, and other groups that don't have drivers licenses is an "undo burden."

I'm totally not interested in your ALEC-inspired cheap-shots at the affected groups. Obviously the Pennsylvania Courts thought otherwise. You got a problem with that? Send a message to the Koch Brothers, ALEC, and the other Rove-strategy groups.

This is the third (or is it fourth?) state that has had this voter-suppression crap struck down. And the only "voter fraud" that anyone can seem to find is the RNC's own Sproul-infected RNC-registration group.

GOP fires vendor after questionable registrations

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Thursday fired a vendor suspected of submitting 108 questionable new voter registrations in Florida's Palm Beach County, ground zero for disputed ballots in 2000's presidential race.

The Republican Party of Florida used Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting to help register and turnout voters in Florida, one of a shrinking handful of states President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are contesting. The Florida state party had paid the firm more than $1.3 million so far, and the Republican National Committee used the group for almost $3 million of work in Nevada, North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia.

"We have zero tolerance for any threat to the integrity of elections. When we were informed of an alleged incident we immediately cut all ties to the company," RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer said. The state party similarly sought to distance itself from the firm and its main operative, Nathan Sproul.

"We immediately informed the Republican National Committee that we were terminating the contract with the voter-registration vendor we hired at their request because there is no place for voter-registration fraud in Florida," state Republican Party Executive Director Mike Grissom said in a statement.

Strategic Allied Consulting said the suspected forms came from one person and the company was cooperating with elections officials in Florida.

One more time the judges disregarding the wishes of the American people. Bipartisan groups of Americans think a goverment issued photo ID isn't onerous.

But Democrat judges think their voters are too ignorant and incapable of getting identification so they have to subvert the votes of representatives. BTW, isn't Pennsylvania a blue state?

The American people don't get to vote on the RIGHTS of others.

This has nothing to do with "Democrat judges"...This has to do with illegal voter-suppression.

You don't get to vote on slavery either. Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Actually Americans have through history got to decide who was a legal voter, property owner, sex, age, etc.
So should 2 years olds get to vote too?

So you can stop spouting your empty phrases like a "right to vote". For example registering, what constitutes valid id for registration?

Ever hear of the 26th Amendment? Actually, Americans DID decide who gets to vote: (15th: blacks and other races; 19th: Women; 26th: 18-year-olds)

You can keep your "states rights" crap and put it in the same place. If states put in place rules that are designed to unduly burden certain segments of the population, it's unconstitutional.

The American people don't get to vote on the RIGHTS of others.

This has nothing to do with "Democrat judges"...This has to do with illegal voter-suppression.

You don't get to vote on slavery either. Would you like some cheese with that whine?