Judge halts Pa.'s tough new voter ID requirement

[TroyD]

Associated Press – 4 minutes ago

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge is postponing Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification requirement, ordering that it not be enforced in the presidential election.

Tuesday's ruling comes just five weeks before the election. An appeal is possible. The 6-month-old law requires each voter to show a valid photo ID.

Democrats and groups including the AARP and NAACP mounted a furious opposition to a law Republicans say is necessary to prevent election fraud. Critics have accused Republicans of using old-fashioned Jim Crow tactics to steal the White House and have highlighted stories of registered voters struggling to get a state photo ID.

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[longship]

1. Good news. nt

R&

[blue_heron]

2. Yay!

Congrats and thanks to those who fought for this in court!

[TroyD]

3. But will this go to the PA Supreme Court?

And get overturned again before the election?

[cojoel]

5. The PA Supreme Court remanded the case to the lower court in the first place

It's previous order said to reconsider the ruling considering whether there was sufficient time and safeguards in place to ensure legitimate voters were not disenfranchised. Upon that order the lower court issued today's ruling. So if it went back to the PA Supreme Court now, it is unlikely they would change their position from before.

[TroyD]

7. What is the likelihood of an appeal or its potential for success?

Low?

[cojoel]

9. I would think it is low

They may appeal, hoping to get a quick ruling to go for a Federal appeal. It is not clear if the US Supreme Court would take the case. For that matter, the PA Supreme Court could just not rule on it for a month.

To me it seems mostly to be a waste of money to pursue further appeals. But I'm in agreement with scrapping the law entirely, so my opinion is biased.

[woolldog]

10. The likelihood is zero.

It's not getting overturned.

[PRETZEL]

8. That's my read also. nt

[RichGirl]

13. No...

One of the reasons the judge halted it is because there is no way so many people could get IDs before the election.

[kooljerk666]

4. Time to call your PA reps & call for Investigation of "COMPANY" that dragged them into.......

a real big mess.

I was calling all my reps a few weeks ago & asking for really harsh mandatory sentencing for anyone using elected office for any election related fraud.

It is now officially impossible to know whether thousands of paper ballots being counted in the state of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election "recount" are the same ones actually cast on Election Day. It didn't have to be that way, unlike in Kentucky, where the voters never had a chance, and where high-ranking election officials have now been sentenced to more than 150 years in federal jail following "decades" of manipulated elections.

from http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8514

I can't wait to see the these guys getting grilled!!!!!!!!!!!

[WI_DEM]

6. Excellent!

[CitizenLeft]

11. outstanding news!!!

Yay!!!

[Cosmocat]

12. Major relief

Not necessary to begin with, but just wrong to interject this mess in a presidential.

[NCLefty]

14. It's been shocking to see how out-in-the-open our pols are with their corruption

[Cosmocat]

15. The Rs have jumped the shark

how they get away with it, how people have not just turned on them in mass, is beyond me.

All the states the have worked so hard to directly attack people's ability to vote, like the nonsense in Ohio.

But, they are teflon with it.

[TroyD]

16. 'they are teflon with it'

Probably because:

1. The mainstream media gives GOP voter fraud very little exposure

2. The perpetrators involved rarely face criminal prosecution

[Cosmocat]

17. Yep

the sheer number of ways they game voting via the lever of state/county government is just astounding. From these bizarre laws they have tried to get passed, to cutting voter rolls, so many states you can't even keep up.

What they have done in Ohio, how they set up precincts to have like two machines for a thousand voters, stuff like that, 200 years ago, it would have gotten ugly.

ACORN, as overblown as it was, was national news for 6 months. What this firm that just got busted for this crape in Florida, Colorado and three other states is barely a blip on the radar screen for the media.