I suppose our only shot at a fair election in Pennsylvania now is for the feds to stop this:
HARRISBURG – On the same day a judge cleared the way for the state’s new voter identification law to take effect, the Corbett administration abandoned plans to allow voters to apply online for absentee ballots for the November election and to register online to vote.
A spokesman for the Department of State said county elections officials told the agency that implementing the new online initiatives as well as voter ID requirements was too much to handle less than three months before the election.
But Stephanie Singer, the top elections official in Philadelphia, said she was unaware that there was an issue with setting up a system to allow voters to register and apply for absentee ballots online, and said shifting more activity online would actually make for less paperwork.
These abstract cases about who might be disenfranchised won’t work. The last chance here is to generate lines outside the registration facilities that can’t be processed. The judge’s finding that the State was in good faith going to make ID’s available is a fact susceptible to collateral attack. The last word on the use of ID’s was the SCT’s Indiana ruling and that stands until availability comes into question.