Voter ID law should be abolished (Montgomery PA News)
Published: Wednesday, September 04, 2013
... In his ruling last week, Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley cited “inaccurate” information from the state as a hardship upon voters during previous attempts to implement the state’s onerous voter ID law.
The ruling came at the end of a trial this summer spurred by lawsuits to overturn a voter ID law that was enacted to coincide with the 2012 presidential election. The law has been suspended for a third time while McGinley prepares a hopefully final ruling on the trial testimony.
We need to put this one to bed, because uncertainty over the law’s fate and requirements of the law itself have confused both voters and the people who manage polling places. And confused voters means fewer people vote.
That, of course, is the idea on the part of those who birthed the law in the first place. Given the enormous Democratic voter registration advantage in Pennsylvania, it serves the interests of a GOP-controlled state government if a lot of them stay home on Election Day ...
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