Pa PASSES VOTER "PHOTO- ID" LAW

How many people visit their library?

Especially the non-driving elderly?

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So, while its said that this photo ID will stop voter fraud, IMHO, it will also disenfranchise perhaps thousands of retirees who no longer drive.

It shouldn't disenfranchise anyone. When you turn in your driver's license, you can request they issue you an official state photo I.D. that you can use in place of a license anywhere a photo I.D. is required. It looks very much like a driver's license.

Where I vote, they never request any sort of I.D., they simply glance at your signature in the sign-in book to see if it matches the previous one. I think requiring a photo I.D. is a good idea.

are you required to have a drivers license to operate a horse and buggy?

indeed...
I like my amish neighbors better'n my redneck ones.

I think it's an excellent idea and have long wondered why they let us vote with just our name. I could be anyone posing to be someone else and vote their vote before they got there just on my say-so. We don't sign anything at our voting booths, just announce who we are and where we live.

Robert A. Pastor, co-director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University, who was executive director of the Carter-Baker commission, said the voter identification fights of recent months pale when compared with some of these other issues, especially voter registration. Only half of eligible voters in the country are registered and few of them lack photo IDs, he said.

“The proponents of voter ID are adamant that it is essential to stop electoral fraud even though there is hardly any evidence of voter impersonation, and the opponents are sure that it will lead to voter suppression even though they haven’t been able — until Pennsylvania — to point to a single instance where a voter could not vote because of a lack of ID,” he said. “I did a survey of Indiana, Maryland, and Mississippi and found only about 1.2 percent of registered voter did not have photo IDs. The problem remains registration — not IDs — in reducing voting participation. To quote Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war, ‘It’s a fight between two bald men over a comb.’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/us/voting-systems-plagues-go-far-beyond-identification.html?pagewanted=all

GUESS WHAT demographic is the least connected and least cyber savvy?

How many people don't even bother to vote?

(Oh, and Penn has admitted that the law will not prevent even ONE frauduent vote since they have no record of any.)

Tico must be right. This new law has nothing to do with disenfranchising voters.

I'm sure you will agree that not having a record does not mean it does not occur.

Are there any honest conservatives who speaks out against such manipulation?

Are there any honest conservatives who speaks out against such manipulation?

Only a dishonest conservative could do such a thing.