The real driving force behind the push for the Voter ID laws was made known when Republican Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania's House Majority Leader, boasted that the state's new voter-ID law, "is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating if the Pennsylvania’s voter ID law discriminates against minorities and the law is being challenged in court,
And Pennsylvania is not alone in running in to problems with their voter ID law, the Department of Justice has opposed the voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas. While in Wisconsin the Huffington Post reported,
In Connecticut we do not have to present a photo ID and there has not been a case of voter fraud. This is another case of the Republicans dirty tricks in trying to block the votes from legitimate voters; they have created a boogeyman to pass laws that will block voters who are likely to vote Democratic. They are once again trying to fix the election process in their favor.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating if the Pennsylvania’s voter ID law discriminates against minorities and the law is being challenged in court,
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Goes to CourtAdditionally, the Huffington Post reports that,
The Nation
Ari Berman
July 24, 2012
Tomorrow the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania will hear a challenge to the state’s new voter ID law from the ACLU and other voting rights groups. The lead plaintiff is Viviette Applewhite, a 93-year-old great-great grandmother who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. Applewhite worked as a hotel housekeeper and never had a driver’s license. Four years ago, her purse was stolen and she lost her Social Security card. Because she was adopted and married twice, she cannot obtain the documents needed to comply with the state’s voter ID law. After voting in every election for the past fifty years, she will lose the right to vote this November.
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The second turning point came a few weeks later, when the Pennsylvania Transportation Department found that 9.2 percent of registered voters, 758,000 Pennsylvanians, don’t have the state-issued IDs required to vote under the law. The number of voters without ID was larger than the margin of Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain in Pennsylvania in 2008. That bombshell contradicted Pennsylvania Secretary of State Carol Aichele’s oft-repeated claim that 99 percent of eligible voters possessed the requisite IDs. The Department of Transportation didn’t release the exact demographic breakdowns of who did not have IDs, but it did find that 18 percent of voters in Philadelphia, a heavily Democratic city that is 44 percent African-American, did not have valid state-issued IDs.
Defendants in a case against one of the nation's strictest voter ID laws in Pennsylvania made a major concession to plaintiffs this week, just days ahead of the start of the trial over the measure.In other words this whole “Voter Fraud” thing is a fraud made up by the Republicans to rig the elections.
In a stipulation agreement signed earlier this month, state officials conceded that they had no evidence of prior in-person voter fraud, or even any reason to believe that such crimes would occur with more frequency if a voter ID law wasn't in effect.
"There have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states,” the statement reads.
And Pennsylvania is not alone in running in to problems with their voter ID law, the Department of Justice has opposed the voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas. While in Wisconsin the Huffington Post reported,
A Wisconsin judge blocked implementation of the state's voter identification law Tuesday, the second time a judge has blocked the controversial law.While in Kansas the Lawrence Journal-World reported that
Dane County Judge David Flanagan made a temporary injunction he issued in March permanent, citing concerns over the ability of state residents to obtain the necessary photo IDs in order to vote, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In March, another Dane County judge had issued an injunction blocking the law's implementation. Voter ID supporters would now need to have both injunctions lifted.
Topeka — Managers of some Kansas nursing homes say they are concerned that their residents might not have the paperwork required to vote under the state's new voter identification lawWhat about the people who don’t live in nursing homes and are working two jobs to make ends meet, who is helping them get the proper ID.
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Secretary of State Kris Kobach says Monday that he's office is instructing county election officers to help nursing homes comply with the law. Kobach says the Peabody home was not given special treatment.
In Connecticut we do not have to present a photo ID and there has not been a case of voter fraud. This is another case of the Republicans dirty tricks in trying to block the votes from legitimate voters; they have created a boogeyman to pass laws that will block voters who are likely to vote Democratic. They are once again trying to fix the election process in their favor.
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