Voter ID: See how they spin

Interesting to see both sides spinning furiously as soon as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made its ruling yesterday on Pennsylvania’s red-hot Voter ID Law.
Those in favor were ebullient that the high court did not knock it down. Those against pointed out that in sending it back to Commonwealth Court the justices asked the judge to insure no Pennsylvanian will be disenfranchised.

Basically, the high court punted. Even two of their own thought so. Both Justice Seamus McCaffery and Debra Todd said the court should make a definitive ruling on an issue clearly of major importance in the state. Both wanted the high court to move to block the law from being in effect for the Nov. 6 election.
Instead, they tossed it back in the lap of Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson Jr., whose ruling upholding the law they were reviewing. The justices want Simpson to make sure the state is doing enough to make the required photo IDs available to all Pennsylvania voters. If he finds they are not, they urged him to issue an injunction blocking implementation of the law.
It doesn’t change our opinion.
This odious law remains a solution in search of a problem.
You can read our editorial stance here.