From the PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE Editorial:
…Its response to a request from the U.S. Justice Department for information concerning Pennsylvania’s compliance with the Voting Rights Act starts out with sarcasm and goes on to accuse its Civil Rights Division of engaging in a political stunt.
This from a Republican administration that oversaw the passage of a new voter identification law that could keep an untold number of citizens from exercising their right to cast ballots in the upcoming presidential election.
By the Corbett administration’s various tellings, the voter ID law will negatively impact a scant 1 percent of the state’s eligible voters (says the governor’s office) and nearly 759,000 registered voters lack appropriate ID from the state Department of Transportation (says the secretary of the commonwealth who oversees the election department)…
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This law was mainly passed to prevent voting by older people who gave up driving, let their licenses expire but never got the photo i.d.. That voter bloc is probably mostly Democrat.
A picture ID is needed for just about everything. The US Supreme Court has ruled requiring voter ID is lawful. Case closed. PA was not part of the old south and never systemically prevented people from voting. Why is AG Holder against voter ID and for Black Panther security teams guarding the polling places? Go figure.
EDITOR: The Supreme Court ruled only on certain aspects of the law.