Pennsylvania: Air Force veteran testifies Pennsylvania voter ID law could prevent him from casting ballot | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A 63-year-old Air Force veteran testified today that Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law could prevent him from voting in upcoming elections because he has been unable to get a state-issued photo ID card. Taking the stand in Commonwealth Court in a hearing over the law’s validity, Danny Rosa of West Chester said poor health and eyesight have prevented him from getting a Pennsylvania driver’s license. And when a friend gave him an hour-long ride to the PennDOT center nearest his house, the clerk refused to issue the photo ID because the name on his New York birth certificate is Daniel Guerra — changed later to Daniel Rosa after his mother married his stepfather. Rosa is the name on his discharge papers and his Veterans Administration ID card. “I banged on the desk real hard and stomped out” of the PennDOT office when the clerk refused to give him a photo ID, he said. He said he is proud of his military service in the 1970s and his honorable discharge and thinks he should be allowed to vote.
Mr. Rosa testified for the plaintiffs — the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of individual voters — who have filed suit against the law, claiming the main intent of the Republican-backed measure is to keep people who usually vote Democratic, such as low-income people, senior citizens and minorities such as blacks and Hispanics, from voting in November.
Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration and the GOP-controlled Legislature approved the new law this spring but have been unable to point to any examples of people voting fraudulently, which was the purported justification for the law.
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