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Pennsylvania voter ID law struck down
The Hill ^ | January 16, 2014

Posted on 01/17/2014 9:59:46 AM PST by SMGFan

Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, among the nation’s most stringent, was struck down Friday morning by a state judge.

Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard L. McGinley ruled that the law, requiring almost all voters to present photo identification prior to voting, was an unreasonable burden on voters.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; pavoterid; votefraud; voterfraud; voterid
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So, signature comparison by a polling place board worker is all you need? Works here in Hudson County. :)
1 posted on 01/17/2014 9:59:46 AM PST by SMGFan
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Ridiculous. I’m going to have to get a star on my driver’s license to board a domestic flights in the next year or so. But I can vote in PA with no ID. Where is the handle? We need to flush America and let the bowl refill with fresh water.


2 posted on 01/17/2014 10:03:17 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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unreasonable burden on voters”

...so is working, having to pay for their own liquor and cigarettes and following the rule of law.


3 posted on 01/17/2014 10:03:47 AM PST by albie (ve`)
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Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, among the nation’s most stringent,

Why, do they stare at your Driver's License extra long?

4 posted on 01/17/2014 10:04:34 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SMGFan

What garbage. The Supreme Court has already ruled it’s not an undue burden. This douche-bag judge has his 15 minutes of fame and then the USSC will squash him like the bug he is.


5 posted on 01/17/2014 10:07:01 AM PST by Dilbert56
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To: Yo-Yo; neverdem; narses; SunkenCiv; Nachum

Gee. And I bet they can get foodstamps, free medical care, and free food and drugs without any ID also. Right?

I can’t check in a motel or hotel without an ID.

I can’t get a library card without an ID.

So, the poor “don’t fly” (ever ???) and “don’t have a car” ..... But the poor can vote 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 times (for democrats) ...


6 posted on 01/17/2014 10:09:40 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SMGFan

7 posted on 01/17/2014 10:09:43 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Then why is is OK to require a photo ID to purchase liquor, weapons, get on an airline, etc?

This is just pure bull Obamastuff.

And it will not stop until we tell the judges to shove it up their Obamaholes.

And back it up with force.


8 posted on 01/17/2014 10:10:16 AM PST by Da Coyote
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I don’t know why republicans don’t just staff poll workers with instruction to opine that the signatures of democrat voters don’t match and you need to see identification (do maybe one of every three voters where the poll worker doesn’t recognize the voter).


9 posted on 01/17/2014 10:11:29 AM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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Misheard on the news on the way into work -- thought the judge had affirmed Voter ID. Insanity NOT to.

More lefty logic:


10 posted on 01/17/2014 10:12:14 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL

They could do like we have in Michigan. They must ask to see ID but you don’t have to show it. However you do leave a paper trail because if you don’t show an ID you have to sign an affidavit that you are who you say you are and that you’re voting legally.


11 posted on 01/17/2014 10:12:40 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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And that’s about it. Every piece of good new or legislation we have heard in the last year has now been overturned by the courts.


12 posted on 01/17/2014 10:21:37 AM PST by Advil000
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To: SMGFan
was an unreasonable burden on voters.

Based on WHAT? The legislature decides voting laws, not the judiciary, unless there is an explicit violation of the PA constitution, such as excluding women or dwarfs.

13 posted on 01/17/2014 10:23:58 AM PST by montag813
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Why? Don’t you have to get a picture id for your Driver’s License?


14 posted on 01/17/2014 10:24:52 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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It’s an unreasonable burden on the voters because it’s too heavy to carry to the polling place. Right?


15 posted on 01/17/2014 10:27:42 AM PST by Glenmore
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To: SMGFan

They should also have to show up in person and present ID to register in my opinion.


16 posted on 01/17/2014 10:32:49 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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I have an idea. Maybe it would work, maybe not.

At each polling place, if a person does not have or want to show a picture ID, have a camera ready to take that person’s photograph, just like the driver’s license people do.

Once the picture is taken, have software that scans faces, like Google, and have a computer do a search for matches. It could be linked to mugshots in all states and territories to see if that person is a felon. It can also check to see if the person has a valid driver’s license in any state, just like the police do. It can also scan passport and ICE photos of legal aliens. This should not place a ‘burden’ on the voter. If they refuse, they don’t vote..............


17 posted on 01/17/2014 10:37:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: montag813

the aristocracy class has deemed all acts by the aristocracy as legal and constitutional until someone bothers to scrape money together and go to court to fight them and maybe win.

The USSC should be pissed they are being ignored.


18 posted on 01/17/2014 10:39:14 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Think about all the things that require you to supply “positive ID”? Too numerous to count, right? No adult living in the USA can get through a calendar year without having to ID themselves at least a few times.

Now we have this judge’s ruling saying that providing ID is “onerous”. Really? I guess that means exercising voting rights is less important than all those other things that do require ID? Right? That’s in effect what they are saying.


19 posted on 01/17/2014 10:49:16 AM PST by Tallguy
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DemonRAT, pimp!!!


20 posted on 01/17/2014 10:50:01 AM PST by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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