[EL] Lead Penn Voter ID Plaintiff gets her ID

[Joe La Rue]

I agree, Rick, with your hope that the State sets appropriate guidelines to
aid this process. Although you and I disagree as to whether there ought to
be voter photo ID laws, we are in complete agreement that ALL eligible
Americans should be allowed to vote.

Joe
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>  I hope that the state has set forth uniform rules for how to take age and
> other factors into consideration.  One thing studies have demonstrated is
> that there is not uniformity in local election administration, when local
> election officials are given discretion over how to administer the rules.
>
>
>
> On 8/17/12 7:15 AM, Joe La Rue wrote:
>
> Interesting development in the Penn Voter ID case: the lead plaintiff,
> who said she wouldn't be allowed to get an ID, just got one<http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news/breaking/&id=166490216&viewAll=y>.
>
>
> *The day after a judge upheld Pennsylvania's new voter identification
> law, the lead plaintiff in the suit seeking to block the law went to a
> PennDot office and was issued the photo ID card she needs to vote.*
>
> *Nothing has changed since Viviette Applewhite, 93, testified in July.
> The law stands. She still doesn't have a driver's license or Social
> Security card. The name on her birth certificate is still different from
> the name on her other documents - all of which, under the law, should have
> barred her from getting her photo ID.*
> *But at precisely 1:16 p.m. Thursday, she got it anyway.*
>
> The State did just what has been saying it would do: it took "age and
> other factors into consideration" and got this lady her ID so she could
> vote. I wonder if the other plaintiffs might be able to do the same thing?
>
> Joe
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