i should note that 13 of the state's transportation offices where you can get the ids are open only one day a week. nine pennsylvania counties don't even have one of these offices at all. and perhaps most pressingly, the whole rationale for the judge keeping the law in place requires that the hundreds of thousands of legal voter pennsylvania residents will know in advance that they have to do all of this in time to get it done before the election. they have to complete the paperwork, have their id issued to them in time to vote. there is an education effort under way to inform feel about it. the contract for the job of educating pennsylvanians on the new voting restrictions was given to a lobbying firm run by a major republican donor. a man who has helped raise $30,000 for the mitt romney for president campaign. he's also the former executive director of the state republican party. most of the people expected to be disenfranchised by this ruling, of course, are