[EL] Lead Penn Voter ID Plaintiff gets her ID

[Adam Bonin]

Two notes:

 

1.        This only happens due to the eve-of-trial announcement of a new
form of voter ID not contained within the new statute:
<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/secretary-of-commonwealth-announces
-new-voter-id-card-163196226.html?utm_expid=43414375-18>
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/secretary-of-commonwealth-announces-
new-voter-id-card-163196226.html?utm_expid=43414375-18 . Applewhite could
not have obtained an ID under the statute against which she sued.

2.       Is this really sufficient to prove identity and eligibility and
deter fraud? "[She] showed the clerk a Medicare card from the 1990s, its
edges frayed from years of being pulled out of her pocketbook. It listed her
Social Security number, but only the last seven digits were visible. A state
Department of Public Welfare document showed her name, signature, and Social
Security number - but all in her own handwriting. Other documents showed her
street address in the city's Germantown section. She had no documents
verifying that the Viviette Virene Brooks listed on her birth certificate
was the same person as the Viviette Applewhite applying for an ID."

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Joe La
Rue
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 10:15 AM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Lead Penn Voter ID Plaintiff gets her ID

 

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&view
All=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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