Penn Judge Rejects GOP Suppression BidAdd Pennsylvania to the list of states where GOP voter suppression efforts are going down in flames.
A state judge yesterday declined to support a grab-bag of a lawsuit filed by the party, which had sought to require ACORN both to turn over a list of the 140,000 voters it says it has registered, which could have made it easier for the GOP to challenge voters at the polls.
The suit also sought, among other things, to force ACORN air public-service announcements reminding first-time voters that they must bring identification to the polls, and to compel the state to provide more provisional ballots.
According to the Associated Press, the judge, Robert Simpson Jr., said “he was not convinced that the party and its fellow individual plaintiffs can ultimately prove their allegations that ACORN is fostering voter-registration fraud and that the state’s election system lacks the safeguards to stop it.”
Another one, apparently, bites the dust.
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