[EL] PA voter ID law decision

Doug Hess douglasrhess at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 12:45:50 PDT 2012


So, the court will likely use what measure or method to determine if
the voter ID law can be implemented without disenfranchisement?

Seems the Supreme Court of PA has already noted that "...both  state
agencies involved appreciate that some registered voters have been and
will be unable to comply with the requirements maintained by PennDOT
to obtain an identification card under  Section  1510(b).  See N.T.
at  713  (testimony  from  a  deputy  secretary  for PennDOT that “at
the end of the day there will be people who will not be able to
qualify for a driver’s license or a PennDOT ID  card”), 749, 772, 810,
995."

So what's left to decide (for the near term)? Or is there really
nothing to decide and the language of what is "instructed" is just
worded that way? Are these "alternate IDs" being given out readily? Do
people know about them?

The text: http://www.pacourts.us/OpPosting/Supreme/out/J-114-2012pco.pdf

Doug



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