Voter fraud nonexistent in PA

Don’t take my word for it, either. Take the state’s own stipulation in a current trial testing a new Pennsylvania voter ID law’s constitutionality.

Talking Points Memo quotes the agreement:

there “have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states.”

Additionally, the agreement states Pennsylvania “will not offer any evidence in this action that in-person voter fraud has in fact occurred in Pennsylvania and elsewhere” or even argue “that in person voter fraud is likely to occur in November 2012 in the absense of the Photo ID law.”

Well, then, you might ask, what was the point of the law in the first place?

A question one hopes will be answered when the case goes to trial beginning tomorrow, because I sure can’t figure out what evidence was presented causing the Republican-held Assembly to pass the law. It surely couldn’t just be the obvious “prevent Democratic voters access to ballots,” could it?

Of course not.

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