Breaking - PA Judge upholds injunction to block voter ID law

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[reegs]

Just breaking on Fox News. Looks like PA will go Obama.

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Here's a link to the AP story: Judge halts Pa.'s tough new voter ID requirement

[Perdogg]

Have you volunteered or contributed, just asking?

[Ulysse]

Do the sane american people still know what revolt and struggle for freedom means !

Fight or leave USA to the new barbaria with Obablama scums !

The judges should be judged if they betray

[PapaBear3625]

It's not over until it's over. This was from a Commonwealth Court judge.

Expect an emergency appeal to the PA state supreme court.

[musicman]

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[stocksthatgoup]

Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. has ... then was appointed by a Democratic governor, Robert P Casey. Simpson was a Democrat then turned RINO

[justlurking]

According to the AP article, the voter ID requirement has been suspended only for this election. It will still go into effect next year.

The reason: there have been a lot of problems with the voter-only ID card. People are allegedly having trouble getting the ID.

The judge was not asked to consider the constitutionality of the voter ID requirement, and did not rule on that. He simply said that the requirement was suspended for this election.

It sounds like the responsibility for this mess is squarely on whoever screwed up the implementation of the voter-only ID.

[kidd]

Here’s a link to the ruling itself (pdf file):
http://www.pacourts.us/NR/rdonlyres/CFBF4323-B964-4846-8179-88D689375C10/0/CMWSuppDetAppPrelInjOrder_100212.pdf

[tsowellfan]

Nonesense! Newt Gingrich had already talked about how republican candidates must take fraud into consideration and add atleast 5% to democrat candidates because of it.

Due to voter fraud:

A GOP +1% is really -5% A GOP +4% is really -1% A GOP +7% is really +2%

[reegs]

Here's a excerpt from the ruling. I'm not good at translating legalese.

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AND NOW, this 2nd day of October, 2012, after supplemental hearing and after consideration of the oral and written arguments of counsel, it is ORDERED and DECREED as follows:

Petitioners’ Application for Preliminary Injunction is GRANTED in part. Based on the foregoing Supplemental Determination, the Respondents and their agents, servants and officers are hereby PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED from:
1) Requiring that a registered elector must apply for a PennDOT product prior to the elector’s seeking issuance of a free DOS ID; and

2) Implementing or enforcing that part of Act 18 which amends Section 1210(a.2) of the Election Code, 25 P.S. §3050(a.2), and Section 1210(a.4)(5)(ii) of the Election Code, 25 P.S. §3050(a.4), for the general election of November 6, 2012. It is the intent of this Preliminary Injunction to extend the transition procedures described in Section 10(1) of Act 18 beyond September 17, 2012, and through the general election of November 6, 2012. Nothing in this Preliminary Injunction shall preclude the Commonwealth from following transition procedures described in Section 10(2) of Act 18 (relating to additional education efforts to those not showing proof of identification for in-person voting) for the general election of November 6, 2012. All other provisions of Act 18 remain in effect.

The Court shall conduct a status conference with counsel on Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 3001, third floor, Pennsylvania Judicial Center, 601 Commonwealth Avenue, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Petitioners shall arrange for a court reporter to be present. After the conference, the Court shall issue a scheduling order pertaining to the close of pleadings, completion of discovery, and trial on the application for a permanent injunction.
 

Link to full ruling

[The Citizen Soldier]

The state party should be going door to door in “Romney areas” — and so far, all I’ve heard are crickets.

So how many doors have YOU knocked on. You sit there at your computer whining about others, listening for crickets. This election is up to YOU, not others who you would blame.

So, how many neighbors, friends, relatives, and associates are you getting to the polls? So far, all I hear is crickets...

[Marathoner]

I swear, if I ever get another dog, I’m going to teach him to read, then give him a list of Federal judges to bite.

[PapaBear3625]

From the article linked at my last post, it's not a complete victory for the Dems:

As a result, Simpson decided that for the November 6 election only, voters without appropriate photo ID could vote, but would no longer have to produce identification within six days, as their votes would be counted.

Attorneys seeking to block the law from taking effect for the next election had contended that anything short of an outright injunction would result in some voters being disenfranchised.

They argued that a partial injunction would create two classes of voters, since election rules require that provisional ballots be counted not on Election Day but at a later date, at which point they could also be subject to challenges from political parties and ultimately not be counted.

If the PA vote is at all close, there would be a scramble to challenge the validity of provisional ballots (which likely would be predominantly from dems) finding which provisional ballots were cast by dead/moved/illegal/never-existed voters and getting them tossed.

[Vigilanteman]

The voter ID law was a booby prize, a sop to conservatives and fair minded moderates who backed the Pileggi bill to allocate Pennsylvania's electoral votes on the same basis as is done in Maine and Nebraska: 2 for the statewide winner, 1 for the winner of each congressional district.

With a solid GOP majority in both houses and a governor pledged to sign the bill once passed, the Pileggi bill would have accomplished the same thing as the voter ID bill with far less fuss and fanfare.

With only the two statewide electoral votes at stake in the most corrupt Democrat districts, there would have been far less reward for cheating making for more balanced contests down ticket as well.

The Democrats would have been unable to launch their normal corrupt legal challenges and delaying tactics for three reasons:

1. Winner take all has been used nationwide for only one century 1864-1968 of our history.
   
2. Maine has used the congressional district system since 1972, Nebraska since 1992.
   
3. The Democrats gleefully competed for and won one of Nebraska's electoral votes under this method in 2008.

Gleason, our Quisling state GOP chair, opposed the Pileggi bill on the basis that the GOP would win all 20 this year given Obama's sorry record. 'So what?', should have been the obvious reply. If that happens, Pennsylvania won't make a difference anyway.

Now, Mr. Chairman, are you willing to resign in disgrace if you don't deliver what you bragged would be done one year ago when you blocked this bill?

[John 3_19-21]

The headline will be the win

[Old Sarge]

Philly, Harrisburg, and York city are going to go overwhelmingly to Obama. The rest of the state will go to Romney

You really think Pittsburgh will break right?

Steeltown union thugs? Please...

[Windcatcher]

Pileggi is my state senator so there’s little I can do, but it looks like we need to run a challenger against Gleason.

[Phosgood]

Virginia is next!!!!!!

[knarf]

Judge Robert is judge ROBIN ..

FOR REAL !!

Check out what he's done his entire career

can anyone spell buttboy ?

[Kenny]

Seems to me that conservatives should now mount court challenges to every state law that requires use of photo identification. Since precedent now appears to have been set.

Great point!