Pa. ordered to surrender data in voter-ID dispute

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:  State transportation and election officials were ordered Monday to provide data on licensed drivers and registered voters to plaintiffs in the ongoing voter-ID dispute, hoping to answer a question that has baffled state officials for the last year: how many Pennsylvania voters do not already have photo identification cards from PennDot?…

Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. agreed to a motion from opponents of the state’s new voter ID law, saying their data request was relevant.

“Not knowing how many Pennsylvania voters don’t have PennDot ID was a major problem in the legal proceedings last year,” said Vic Walczak, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, representing plaintiffs opposing the voter ID law…   (more)

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