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Judge: Pennsylvania voter ID law on hold until after election
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Judge Robert Simpson ruled Tuesday that voters will not be required to show photo identification at the polls this November, but election officials may still ask. The judge’s ruling essentially extends the transition period for Pennsylvania’s tough voter ID law, letting officials ask for identification but prohibiting them…
What ‘rogues and vagabonds’ have to do with Pennsylvania voter ID law
What 'rogues and vagabonds' have to do with Pennsylvania voter ID law An 1869 ruling used by a Pennsylvania state judge in August to uphold a tough new voter ID law is providing some new and startling historical context to deliberations by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as it mulls whether…
Republican judge blocks rights groups’ suit over Pennsylvania voter ID law
In Pennsylvania, a Commonwealth Court judge has rejected a suit brought by the ACLU, the NAACP and others to block the state’s stringent new voter ID law, according to the Philadelphia Enquirer‘s website Philly.com. Judge Robert E. Simpson, elected to the bench as a Republican in 2001, rejected the plaintiffs’…
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