Pennsylvania judge upholds voter-ID law

[Badger]

Pennsylvania courts cite a law from 1869:

http://www.witf.org/state-house-sound-bites/2012/09/voter-id-heads-to-the-state-supremes-tomorrow.php

From 1869:"rogues and strumpets do not nightly traverse the deserted highways of the farmer. Low inns, restaurants, sailors' boarding-houses and houses of ill fame do not abound in rural precincts, ready to pour out on election day their pestilent hordes."

Can anyone even translate that passage into modern English?

"Ganstas and hoes don't go creeping in the boondocks at night.  Hooker hotels, Checkers, crack houses and bordellos are in the city wards, sending out people to vote for a forty or a couple bucks."

Well, you asked.

That's actually an excellant translation, JJ.  It's unfortunate to say the least this case, even if not this portion, was cited in support. Of the law.