Voter Suppression Efforts Against Minorities and Youth Remind Many of Pennsylvania Jim Crow Laws

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What ‘rogues and vagabonds’ have to do with Pennsylvania Voter ID Battle (via The Christian Science Monitor)

An 1869 ruling used by a Pennsylvania state judge in August to uphold a tough new voter ID law is providing some new and startling historical context to deliberations by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as it mulls whether to block the controversial law before the Nov. 6 presidential election.