Steve Benen, MSNBC
The case against Pennsylvania's dubious new voter-ID scheme seemed to be going pretty well. The state official responsible for overseeing Pennsylvania's elections process, for example, acknowledged in court, "I don't know what the law says." Asked to defend her claim that 99 percent of voters already have a valid form of ID, she couldn't.Making matters worse, officials also conceded there's been no reported in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania and there isn't likely to be in 2012, either.
The case against Pennsylvania's dubious new voter-ID scheme seemed to be going pretty well. The state official responsible for overseeing Pennsylvania's elections process, for example, acknowledged in court, "I don't know what the law says." Asked to defend her claim that 99 percent of voters already have a valid form of ID, she couldn't.Making matters worse, officials also conceded there's been no reported in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania and there isn't likely to be in 2012, either.
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