On July 27, U.S. District Court Judge Nora Barry Fischer, a Bush Jr. appointee, upheld a Pennsylvania law that makes it illegal to pay registration workers on a per-registration form basis. Here is the 54-page decision, Project Vote v Kelly, 09-951, western district.

The decision construes the Pennsylvania law to permit firing registration workers if they have low productivity, and the opinion suggests that if the law made it illegal to have production quotas, the law would be unconstitutional. Also, the decision partly depends on the fact that the number of registered voters obtained by any group has no effect on whether any particular ballot question, party, or candidate, qualifies for the ballot. See pages 35 and 39 of the opinion.