they right not don t have, he thinks that s okay. he thinks the state can do that to those voters because he thinks the state is perfectly capable of getting all of those people new ids in time. seriously, the judge s reasoning was that hundreds of thousands of people in pennsylvania who do not have this kind of id will be provided it by the state of pennsylvania before the election. this of course requires that the state can handle that influx of work, requires that all of those hundreds of thousands of people in pennsylvania are going to have the documentation they need in order to get the new ids. it requires that all of those hundreds of thousands of people are going to have transportation and access to the department of transportation offices in philadelphia where you can get these new ids. i should perhaps note here that pennsylvania has the lowest proportion of government workers to state population of any state in the country. i should note that 13 of the state s transportation
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 democrats. during the hearing over whether this law should be allowed to take effect
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