From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:
Less than a week after hearing oral arguments in the challenge to the state’s voter ID law, the state Supreme Court has issued a ruling that still leaves the law’s fate in limbo.
By a 4-2 decision, the court ordered the Commonwealth Court to take another look at the case to determine if the alternative forms of identification that the state has made available comply with the law’s requirement of “liberal access.”
The court’s ruling said that if the Commonwealth Court is unconvinced about whether any voters will be disenfranchised, the court is obliged to block the law from taking effect on Nov. 6. Republicans who backed the law said it was intended to preserve the integrity of elections, while Democrats and others who opposed the law saw it as an effort to suppress the vote in urban poor community…
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Strange country that would be able to require a young male to register for the draft with absolutely no proof of id but could conceivably deny him the right to vote if he didn’t have his photo i.d.
Some European countries require all citizens to vote in elections or pay a tax if they don’t but in the Commonwealth of Oz we’ve managed to reinstate poll taxes.