The state’s advertising campaign on the voter ID law can continue, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson decided less than a week before Election Day.

Noting several reasons, primarily the fact that his October 2 injunction barring enforcement of key elements of the law — called Act 18 — for the upcoming election didn’t halt the advertising campaign, Simpson denied a petition from the challengers who sought to stop the law that asked him to enjoin the state from distributing what they saw as misleading ads.