More on the latest Pennsylvania Voter ID ruling, which found several elements of the plaintiffs’ case missing:

“The judge said he found no evidence that the voter ID law was passed by Pennsylvania’s Republican-majority legislature with the intention of disenfranchising certain voters who might be more inclined to vote for Democratic candidates.”

“Challengers to the law must also present evidence of purposeful discrimination, the judge said. ‘The Court has been presented with and finds no evidence of such purposeful discrimination,’ McGinley said.”

Judge McGinley also “ruled against the American Civil Liberties Union and other challengers who asked him to declare that the provisions violated the state and federal constitutional right to equal protection.”

Thanks to an incredible stipulation by the office of Democrat Attorney General Kathleen Kane that “the parties are not aware of any incidents of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania” (they must’ve not seen this), the state’s case was also missing a key element, according to McGinley. In finding that the state failed to justify the voter ID law with evidence of voter fraud, “the judge seemed to continue to focus a major part of his objections on the red herring of we don’t have records of much voter fraud, so you can’t pass a law to prevent it.”

Governor Tom Corbett, who signed voter ID into law in March 2012, has until January 27 to decide whether to appeal the case to Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court.