EDITORIAL: Truth about Pa. voter ID law keeps getting uglier and uglier

The argument for Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law was flimsy to begin with — to protect the integrity of the voting process from a nonexistent fraud problem. But now even this cover has been blown.

House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, one of the Republicans who guided the voter ID bill through the Legislature in March, was listing recent legislative accomplishments at a meeting of the Republican State Committee in June, when he added: “Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.”

Is there any way to view Turzai’s comment other than a candid admission of the partisan motive for the law? When the bill was passed, Republicans hailed it as a victory against the scourge of people showing up at the polls trying to impersonate other voters.

Instead, they were following a national GOP agenda to make sure people without photo IDs — for the most part, elderly and poor people who don’t have driver’s licenses, who also tend to vote Democratic — would have to show other valid IDs or go to the state Department of Transportation to get a non-driving photo ID.

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/07/editorial_pa_voter_id_law_dese.html

The truth is getting out there. I'm glad the truth behind the voter ID laws came out now instead of after the elections.