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Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Eleven years ago, our Commonwealth Court ruled a Gov. Corbett photo ID law was unconstitutional. The Court asked the State for one verified example of even ONE person committing in person voting fraud in PA. The PA lawyer replied that they had ZERO VERIFIABLE examples.

The court ruled that the law was a voter suppression tool with no other purpose than that. (Please look up Commonwealth v. Applegate for the written decision.)

The court issued a preliminary injunction which allowed an estimated 120,000 PA voters unable to obtain photo ID (who would have been otherwise disenfranchised) to vote in the 2012 Presidential election.

Basic rights are NOT allowed to be decided by referendum voting. Imagine how unjust it would have been to have the Southern states in 1955 decide civil rights by majority vote !

The State in 2011 had set up a system to travel for photos