The article that I read is called “Pennsylvania voter ID laws struck down as judge cites burden   Citizens”. This article was written by Rick Lymanjan, and was posted on January 17, 2014 in the New York Times. The articles main discussion was about how a judge by the Name of Bernard L. McGinley, decided not to pass the voter ID law that governor Corbett so wishes to pass. For those who do not know, the voter ID law are about how PA state residents, have to show some sort of ID in order to vote at the polls and i cast a ballot. The reason why the law was proposed was because Governor Corbett and his party said that it will protect from voters fraud. The problem with this statement is that there has not been enough evidence, to prove that there is an influx or a lot of, voter’s fraud to make the law pass.

Judge McGinley wrote, “Voting laws are designed to assure a free and fair election” (Lymanjan 2014, p 1) he then went on writing that this particular law takes away the rights of citizens in Pennsylvania. The article discusses how the law prevents many demographics from voting, such as: elderly, disabled and low-income persons. The article does not go into detail why these particular groups would suffer from these laws. Another problem with the law that the judge touched on was the fact that the law promised free ID’s to anyone who didn’t have one, but the judge argued that this idea was too difficult to execute and maybe even impossible. It was written in the article that since the law was denied that the governor may take to the State Supreme Court but nothing is official yet, governor Corbett has yet mad a discussion.

The main question to be asked here is if the voter ID law unconstitutional? It is evident, that a judge finds it to be so, but does the general population? In my opinion this law that governor Corbett wants passed, is going against our constitutional rights because he is creating a barrier so some people will not be able to vote. The voter ID law reminds me of the reading test that they used to preform of poor blacks and whites in the south back in the late 1800s. If they couldn’t read and understand what was in written then those people couldn’t vote, taking away their rights. The same will happen if the voter ID law is passed.  This is something that can be argued about. This law can take away peoples voice more than it already is. I feel there is no evidence, like the judge said, to support voting fraud. Voters Fraud is rare in this state and I haven’t heard of any other state that has a huge problem with voters fraud. There is another story behind this; do I know what that story is? No.  Do I even suspect? Not really, but believe, If I have some time I will come up with a few ideas.