Penn Live reports. … Continue reading →

Pam Fessler reports for NPR. … Continue reading →

NYT WaPo Ari Berman Brennan Center Liz Kennedy Philly.com Post-Gazette more to come       … Continue reading →

ABC News reports. … Continue reading →

You can find the judge’s 18 page order here. In a nutshell, the judge has found that there will still be at least some voter disenfranchisement caused by the new law, because it does not appear that Pa. officials could … Continue reading →

IndyStar reports.   … Continue reading →

If you read one thing on voter id this week, read Morgan Kousser’s LA Times oped. … Continue reading →

See Pa. Judge May Allow Most of Voter ID Law and Judge crafting a way to keep voter ID law and allow people to vote. Hey, whatever happened to that federal Voting Rights Act section 2 case that DOJ was … Continue reading →

NPR’s Pam Fessler: “Thousands of people in the state are scrambling to get their photo IDs, not waiting for the judge’s decision. For many, including Mitchell and Herbert, the process is a struggle.” … Continue reading →

Post-Gazette: “State officials have again altered their procedures for issuing photo identification cards to Pennsylvanians who require it to vote in November. Responding to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion that raised questions about the ID card process, a procedure finalized … Continue reading →

HuffPo reports. … Continue reading →

Color of Change has issued this press release. … Continue reading →

Philly.com: “A voter-ID mutiny launched by Democratic-controlled Montgomery and Allegheny Counties showed signs of spreading across the state Friday, as Philadelphia and a handful of other local governments said they, too, would consider issuing poll-ready identification cards through county-run nursing … Continue reading →

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. … Continue reading →

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Today the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a 4-2 per curiam (unsigned) decision and two dissenting statements, sending the challenge to the state’s new tough voter i.d. law back to the trial court for more factfinding.  The four Justices in … Continue reading →

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Here is a link to a Democracy Now! program.  I haven’t had a chance to listen to the program but the 1 million disenfranchised voters seems quite high and not supported at all by what we know.   … Continue reading →

AP: ” Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court justices on Thursday aggressively questioned whether a politically charged law requiring photo identification from each voter should take effect for the Nov. 6 presidential election and whether it guarantees the right to vote….The six … Continue reading →

Howard’s got it.  I will link to stories describing today’s arguments as they become available. … Continue reading →

NYT editorial. … Continue reading →

Jessie Allen has written this oped in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  A snippet: But Patterson is relevant in another way. It shows that a majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was once led to rationalize burdensome election procedures based on generalized … Continue reading →