From [HERE] Last week a judge for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a preliminary injunction [opinion, PDF] preventing Pennsylvania's voter identification law [HB 943 materials] from taking effect for the upcoming presidential election. Under the court’s order, voters can be asked for ID at the polls, but a failure to produce the ID wil not prevent them from casting a regular ballot — not a provisional ballot. [MORE]
Yet, despite this court order, at least five Pennsylvania county websites still falsely inform voters that they need to show ID in order to cast a regular ballot:
In addition to these five county websites, at least one state university — West Chester University — falsely informs its students that they “MUST present one of the following forms of PHOTO ID when [they] go to their poll place to vote in the General Election this November 6, 2012.”
To be fair, it is likely that these websites remain live simply because county or university officials have not yet updated their sites after the court’s decision last week. Nevertheless, they are a possible sign that elections officials may not fully understand that the requirement that voters present ID at the polls before they can cast a regular ballot is not in effect in November. Last month, elections officials in New Hampshire falsely told some primary voters that ID was required, even though the law did not yet require ID to be shown. The websites listed above indicate a similar error is taking place in Pennsylvania, potentially discouraging many voters from casting a ballot they are lawfully entitled to cast.