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HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania voters who go to the polls without photo identification will be able to vote in next month's presidential election after all.
They won't even have to fill out provisional ballots.
So ruled a Commonwealth Court judge Tuesday in the closely watched legal battle over Pennsylvania's controversial voter-ID law. Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. upheld the law - but blocked it from taking full effect in the Nov. 6 election.
In essence, the rules remain as they were during the law's so-called "soft roll-out" in the April primary: Voters will be asked for the photo ID required by the new law, but if they don't have it, they can still vote.
Whether Simpson's ruling is the last word was not yet clear. Corbett administration officials said Tuesday through spokesmen that they had not yet decided whether to mount an appeal.
Critics of the law, including numerous Democratic officeholders, exulted over Simpson's ruling, saying it will help ensure that all voters will get an equal shot at having their voices heard this fall.
In the same breath, however, they signaled concern that if the state continues its aggressive education campaign on the voter-ID law, many voters may be confused.
"Anytime you have confusion on Election Day, it's not good for democracy," said Witold "Vic" Walczak, state legal director for the ACLU and one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, who include several voters as well as the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and other groups.
Nonetheless, Walczak was among a long line of voter ID critics who praised Simpson's decision as a win for voters.
"Voters will be able to vote with a regular ballot," he said, ". . . and I think that is a huge victory."
Pennsylvania officials who have supported the law, among them Gov. Corbett, had a more guarded reaction. And they did not directly answer a key question: whether they will appeal Simpson's decision to the state Supreme Court.
"That hasn't been determined. We are still reviewing it," Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley said.
Commonwealth Secretary Carol Aichele, Pennsylvania's top election official, seemed to send strong signals that the state would probably not appeal.
"The same procedure will be in effect for this election as for the spring primary, in that voters will be requested to show ID, but ID will not be required to vote," Aichele said in a statement.
She added: "This law is designed to preserve the integrity of every vote by doing what we can to make sure each voter is who they claim to be at the polls, and we are confident this law will be fully implemented in future elections."
In a Tuesday morning interview on WHYY-FM, when Aichele was asked if the state would appeal the ruling, she said: "I suppose there's always a chance."
State officials also were circumspect on what changes they may make to radio and television ads now airing across the state telling voters they must show photo ID at the polls Nov. 6. The same message - rendered obsolete by Simpson's ruling - was on mailings already sent to millions of registered voters. Pennsylvania has spent nearly all of the $ 5 million in federal voter-education funds it had allotted for public outreach on the voter-ID law.
On Tuesday, it was unclear what steps might be taken to revise the message, and at what cost, and at whose expense.
"It is likely we will pull the TV and radio ads," said Ron Ruman, spokesman for the Department of State. "But we're still in the process of working that out."
In his decision, Simpson credited state officials with trying mightily to guarantee voters the kind of "liberal access" to state-issued photo IDs that the state Supreme Court has said the law requires. But he concluded, in essence, that not enough time remains to get it right by the time the polls open Nov. 6.
"Five weeks before the general election," he wrote, "I question whether sufficient time now remains to attain the goal of liberal access."
With that in mind, the judge set the stage for a fall election governed by the same rules as the primary ("exactly the same," as Aichele put it Tuesday), when voters were asked for photo ID at the polls but none were turned away for not having one.
He did so by enjoining the portion of the law, known as Act 18, that deals with provisional ballots.
When the Republican-controlled legislature passed the law in March, it said voters who did not bring proper photo ID on Election Day could cast a provisional ballot. They would then have six days to bring in the required photo ID in order for their vote to count.
Simpson found, as he had in a previous ruling, that the law does not disenfranchise voters simply by requiring poll workers to ask for photo ID. The problem, he said - echoing a point he made during hearings last week - comes after Election Day, when a voter who has cast a provisional ballot cannot obtain the necessary ID in time to persuade election officials to count his or her vote.
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