Trump Says He Will Order Voter ID Requirement For Every Vote

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59. When PA attempted to implement Voter ID back in 2012

it wasn't "free". There was even this smarmy ass who has since exited the state Legislature, who touted it as their ticket to Romney winning PA -

The cost of the birth certificate alone (at least for PA residents at the time) was $9. And good luck if you were resident of PA but born in another state in a rural area in the early part of the 20th century and they can't find your birth certificate or there was none - maybe just a notation in a bible.

All of this landed in the 2012 lawsuit filed by-then 93 year old Viviette Applewhite in Applewhite, et al. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al.

From here - https://www.aclupa.org/news/remembering-voting-rights-champion/

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Pennsylvania’s 2012 law required one of very few types of photo identification. In reality, unless you had a driver’s license or non-driver state ID, you likely didn’t have the ID required to vote. Ludicrously, even a veterans’ picture ID, issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, didn’t suffice.

To get a state-issued ID in the post-9/11 security-enhanced world, you needed an original birth certificate and social security card, and the names had to match perfectly. Women were disproportionately affected by this requirement because they more often changed names with marriage. In that case, they also needed an original marriage certificate.

African-Americans, especially those born in the South, were also severely affected. Especially during the Jim Crow era, many Black people weren’t born in hospitals, and if they were, most hospitals did not prioritize keeping birth records for them. Viviette and her nine fellow plaintiffs in the lawsuit were representative of people without the required IDs who would have a difficult, if not impossible, time obtaining the needed ID.

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It was basically declared a "poll tax" (violation of the 24th Amendment), and the GOP loons kept modifying it and modifying it to reduce the requirements and then offer a "free ID". But ultimately, a stay was put on the law ahead of the 2012 election, and the law was mooted a couple years after the election when the GOP loon governor chose not to appeal.

Then he was voted out and lost a 2nd term and a GOP governor has, so far, not been elected since his election in 2011 (breaking a long "tradition" of the office alternating parties).