Pennsylvania judge won't block voter ID law
By Tom Curry, NBC News national affairs writer
A Pennsylvania judge denied a request Wednesday to block enforcement of the state’s new voter identification law.
Those seeking to block the law did not show that “disenfranchisement was immediate or inevitable,” wrote Judge Robert Simpson.
In refusing to grant an injunction to stop the law from being enforced, Simpson said he was convinced that state officials were making efforts to inform voters about the law’s requirements and to implement it “in a non-partisan, even-handed manner.”
He also said that based on the availability of absentee voting and provisional ballots as well as court intervention for voters with special hardships, “I am not convinced any of the individual petitioners (seeking to block the law) or other witnesses (at the trial) will not have their votes counted in the general election.”
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It also reported that names of nearly 760,000 voters couldn’t be matched between the state’s voter list and the driver’s license database.
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