At a DMV location in downtown Philadelphia in September 2012, some 100 people waited in lines that endured for over an hour. (Courtesy of Ari Berman)
Judge Bernard McGinley of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled against the state’s strict voter ID law today following a lengthy trial last summer. The law had been temporarily blocked since last October pending a full trial. The ruling is a big win for voting rights and a clear setback for voter ID supporters.
Judge McGinley found that the law violated the state constitution because hundreds of thousands of registered voters lacked the restrictive forms of ID required by the state, few had obtained the requisite ID since the law’s passage in March 2012, the state had not made it easy to get an ID and there was no evidence of in-person voter fraud to justify the burdens of the law.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/177976/pennsylvania-ruling-shows-problem-voter-id-laws#
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