“The day after a judge upheld Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law, the lead plaintiff in the suit seeking to block the law went to a PennDot office and was issued the photo ID card she needs to vote.” Huh. As the judge ruled and this development confirms, the complaint always relied more on the 93-year-old Mrs. Applewhite’s emotional appeal than fact – and Judge Robert Simpson acknowledged, “I do not have the luxury of deciding this issue based on my sympathy for the witnesses.” Too bad for the anti-ID crowd, which prefers sympathetic figures over facts. The star of Team Obama’s “Gotta Vote” video, Dorothy Cooper of Tennessee, is another little old lady alleged to be a victim of Voter ID disenfranchisement who, it turns out, was merely inconvenienced on her way to successfully obtaining an acceptable photo ID. Lessons learned: Inconvenience is not disenfranchisement. Not currently having an ID is not the same as being unable to get an ID. And if 90-year-old ladies can get Voter ID, anyone can do it.
Pennsylvania Voter ID Plaintiff “Happy As a Clam” She Now Has Photo ID
“The day after a judge upheld Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law, the lead plaintiff in the suit seeking to block the law went to a PennDot office and was issued the photo ID card she needs to vote.” Huh. As the judge ruled and this development confirms, the complaint always relied more on the 93-year-old Mrs. Applewhite’s emotional appeal than fact – and Judge Robert Simpson acknowledged, “I do not have the luxury of deciding this issue based on my sympathy for the witnesses.” Too bad for the anti-ID crowd, which prefers sympathetic figures over facts. The star of Team Obama’s “Gotta Vote” video, Dorothy Cooper of Tennessee, is another little old lady alleged to be a victim of Voter ID disenfranchisement who, it turns out, was merely inconvenienced on her way to successfully obtaining an acceptable photo ID. Lessons learned: Inconvenience is not disenfranchisement. Not currently having an ID is not the same as being unable to get an ID. And if 90-year-old ladies can get Voter ID, anyone can do it.