Pa. voter ID law won’t be enforced in May primary

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE / AP: Pennsylvania voters will not be required to show photo identification in the May 21 primary election under an agreement signed Thursday by both sides in a pending lawsuit.

Lawyers representing the Corbett administration and plaintiffs who are challenging the constitutionality of the voter ID law in state Commonwealth Court agreed that the law won’t be enforced as voters choose nominees for judicial and municipal offices.

Local election officials can ask to see identification, as they did in the presidential election last fall, but voters will be allowed to cast ballots as usual even if they lack those documents. If the law were enforced, voters without IDs would have to cast provisional ballots that would count only if they proved their identity afterward to officials…  (more)

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