PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Editorial: After two years and $7 million in wasted taxpayer-funded advertising costs and legal fees, Pennsylvania’s embarrassing and discriminatory voter-ID law has finally been buried by a wise court ruling.
But like a gambler caught up in a losing streak, Gov. Corbett can’t bring himself to just walk away. Instead, he sends mixed signals. He said Thursday that he won’t appeal the Commonwealth Court ruling in January, which is good. But, apparently to appease his radical-right buddies, he also said he wants to retool the law…
Pennsylvania never needed this law. Voters already have to prove their identities when registering to vote or at the request of a poll worker when voting for the first time in a new place… (more)
