Pennsylvania voter ID law prevents veterans from voting?

Annette John-Hall: Military vets to be among growing group disenfranchised by Voter ID bill.
Annette John-Hall
Inquirer Columnist
Sep. 18, 2012

I'm telling you, the more I learn about Pennsylvania's politically motivated farce of a voter ID law, the more comical it gets.

I mean, it's become a laugh- to-keep-from-crying proposition. With all the incompetence, subjectivity, and misinformation that continues to swirl only 49 days before the election, it seems more obvious that the only way to secure every citizen's right to vote is if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court does the right thing and overturns the law.

Let's see. So far, the bill stands to disenfranchise thousands of minority, elderly, disabled, and student voters.

But there's one group you'd never guess would be on the list.

Try veterans.

That's right. The men and women who have fought so valiantly for our liberty may not be able to cast ballots themselves if they don't have another form of photo ID besides their VA cards.

That's because their government-issued Veterans Affairs medical ID card lacks an expiration date.

The card is valid until said veteran, well, expires. But that wasn't good enough for State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), who authored Act 18, Pennsylvania's voter ID bill.
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