Commonwealth Judge Bernard McGinley has ruled there is no need for a voter ID law in Pennsylvania!
Democrats have been grinding their teeth ever since
Pennsylvania State House Majority Leader Mike Turzai announced the new
Voter ID Law passed by the legislature was “gonna allow Governor Romney
to win the state of Pennsylvania.” Lawyers presented his statement in
court as evidence the state’s newfound interest in voter fraud was just
voter suppression in disguise.
To Leader Turzai’s eternal disappointment, the state’s supreme court
kept the law from taking effect in time for the 2012 election. The
justices sent the case back to the Commonwealth Court to investigate how
the new ID requirements would impact legal voters, with instructions
that the lower court must suspend the law if “liberal access to voter ID
is nor ensured.”
Think Progress reports
the Commonwealth Court has ruled. Judge Bernard McGinley struck down
the law, issuing a permanent injunction against the voter ID
requirement, writing:
“In Pennsylvania, the right of qualified electors to vote is a fundamental one. Therefore, Pennsylvania precedent does not permit regulation of the right to vote when such regulation denies the franchise, or ‘make[s] it so difficult as to amount to a denial.’”
Judge McGinley also dismissed the state’s claim they were concerned
about voter fraud, saying he found such instances to be “exceedingly
rare”.
The case will no doubt be appealed, once again, to the state supreme court.
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