Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-PA) sponsored the voter suppression ID law. Tuesday the PA Supreme Court ordered a lower court to stop the law for this election if that judge found that it was likely to disenfranchise legitimate voters.
In an interview on Pittsburgh's flagship radio station, KDKA, Rep. Metcalfe said this: "I don’t believe any legitimate voter that actually wants to exercise that right and takes on the according responsiblity that goes with that right to secure their photo ID will be disenfranchised. As Mitt Romney said, 47% of the people that are living off the public dole, living off their neighbors’ hard work, and we have a lot of people out there that are too lazy to get up and get out there and get the ID they need. If individuals are too lazy, the state can’t fix that."
I don't see how a judge can look at such a sickening statement, particularly with the statistical evidence showing the impossibility of issuing IDs in time, and do anything other than call the whole thing off.
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