Castor, Richards React to Voter ID Law Decision

Mary Ellen Digregorio August 15, 2012 at 02:58 pm

How much boo hoo more dose one want to do insteat get you butt out of you home and go get your picture taken. This should not be a problem only for the Politicans that were able to raise the Dead on election day with there absentee votes. Or by sending in someone to make a vote because the person they have on record is this severe mental handicap person that has no idea and is too many disibilities to make a sound vote so that Party that pushing for their canidate get that extrat vote in. This is know as VOTER FRAUD. SO because we have to produce a photo ID to prove you are that person behind the Curtain voting we have all these Politicns Crying Boo Hoo..... Oh well git goes with that Saying SHIT HAPPENS :-)

Jake August 15, 2012 at 04:38 pm

You need a photo ID to:
Drive Buy alcohol Buy cigarettes Apply for welfare Apply for food stamps Cash a check Purchase a firearm Make any large credit card purchase Open a bank account Rent an apartment vote.......YES! Be admitted to a hospital Get a marriage license

Stacie Dale August 16, 2012 at 12:57 pm

How will this work with absentee voters? Will you have to send in a photocopy of a photo ID with your paper ballot? Curious because my Grandmother is 87 and has never driven a car, so she's never had a license, and she is disabled and unable to vote in person anymore. She has voted absentee for the last 10 years since she became ill. What do we do now?

freeandequalpa August 16, 2012 at 01:58 pm

For anyone interested in a detailed summary of the Court's opinion:
http://freeandequalpa.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/petitioners-request-to-enjoin-enforcement-of-photo-id-law-denied/

Steven Long August 16, 2012 at 02:45 pm

Stacie, I believe the provision is for people voting in person. That aside, if someone is voting in person, they do NOT need a drivers license, merely a government photo ID. Government ID is available free of charge. Aside from that, how do you curb the voter fraud when people are voting from the grave. Would it surprise you to know my father (registered Dem) was ill during an election, and did not vote in person, or via absentee ballot. Apparently, someone though they would be nice, and voted for him. Imagine that!

Mohandus Frieri August 16, 2012 at 02:53 pm

Idiocy Jake.
None of those points are relevant because voting is a constitutional right. So keep on pulling out your photo ID to buy condoms, borrow library books, buy pornography, or strap one on. Doesn't matter. Voter fraud has never been prosecuted or investigated in PA. Why??? Because it is illegal and it never happened.

Janet Rosen August 16, 2012 at 03:27 pm

If you want people to be able to get a photo id you need to make it accessible for all. ie mobile units, drug stores, post offices not only drivers licenses stations. Else this law is nothing more than voter suppression just like Jim Crow laws of old.
Uppler Dublin Resident

Randy August 16, 2012 at 08:15 pm

Lots of people do none of those things. As an example, my grandmother. She does not drive, doesn't drink alcohol, doesn't smoke, no welfare, no food stamps, doesn't need ID to deposit a check to her own account, doesn't need to buy a firearm, doesn't have a credit card, has an existing bank account, owns her home, and is a widow. As for the hospital, if she is found unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, the hospital still has to admit her with or without ID.

Stacie Dale August 16, 2012 at 09:08 pm

Just got confirmation from Voter Services that no photo ID is required for absentee ballots since on an absentee ballot you give your SS#. Relieved that I won't have to take my Grandmother to get a photo ID since she is not well.

Dolores Herrmann August 17, 2012 at 11:08 am

Even with voter ID who checks for double SSN or photos? There are people who get numerous IDs giving different addresses, some are empty lots, and vote many times in different districts. Computers are needed to verify SSNs and addresses to see if individuals actually reside there. Using utility bills helps but a boarder wouldn't have those. There are many flaws but still a good law.

Hammurabi September 8, 2012 at 06:34 pm

AND buy a weapon - A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT!

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