From the LEHIGH VALLEY EXPRESS-TIMES Editorial:
The argument for Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law was flimsy to begin with — to protect the integrity of the voting process from a nonexistent fraud problem. But now even this cover has been blown.
House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, one of the Republicans who guided the voter ID bill through the Legislature in March, was listing recent legislative accomplishments at a meeting of the Republican State Committee in June, when he added: “Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.”
Is there any way to view Turzai’s comment other than a candid admission of the partisan motive for the law? When the bill was passed, Republicans hailed it as a victory against the scourge of people showing up at the polls trying to impersonate other voters…
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