Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court remanded the controversial voter identification law. The high court instructed Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson to determine whether voters will be able to easily obtain state-issued ID cards, which the law requires for them to be able to vote in the upcoming election. If not, the Supreme Court instructed the lower court to block the law's implementation with a preliminary injunction. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, about 14% of voters in Pennsylvania lack the proper identification in order to exercise their constitutional right to vote in November. That's about 1 million people who could be potentially disenfranchised in the key swing state.
Opponents of the law say that this is an all-too transparent attempt by the Republican party to disenfranchise minorities, poor, and elderly voters, all of whom tend to vote Democratic. Currently, the law requires every voter to present a state-issued driver's license, state non-driver ID card or government employee ID.
Let's see what happens.
