Posted on 03/14/2012 6:59:32 PM PDT by LdSentinal
After three days of floor debate, the Pennsylvania House has passed a bill requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls. Governor Tom Corbett signed the bill into law Wednesday night.
Opponents call it a "poll tax," while supporters insist it's "common sense."
Counties are being told about the upcoming changes, according to Ron Ruman, a spokesman for the Department of State.
For the April 24 primary election, poll workers are supposed to request, but not require, that voters show photo identification.
"And then we're asking that the poll worker hand that voter a small sheet of paper which has the basics of the voter ID bill on it -- what types of voter ID will be acceptable for the fall election and where they can go to get more information," Ruman said.
It won't be until November's general election that the rules stick.
Voters can show a driver's license, or a nondriver's ID from PennDOT. State and federal government-issued IDs are acceptable, as are employee IDs from Pennsylvania county and municipal governments.
Identification from an accredited Pennsylvania college or university, as well as Pennsylvania nursing homes and assisted living facilities also will be accepted. Voters without any of those identifications can get a free ID from PennDOT before the general election.
A voter without necessary ID on Election Day can cast a special ballot that will be counted if that voter shows acceptable identification to the county election office within six days of the election.
Awesome. Love my Gov giving the shaft to the Rat Machines in Philthidelphia and Pittsburgh. Lets see how easily they will be able to manufacture votes now.
Watch the absentee ballots, that’s where they really score big.
“WTH? The poll workers can ask, but aren’t required to get ID?
Then why even bother?”
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The “can ask but not require” is for “practice” of the poll workers in the April primary. The new law with its ID REQUIREMENTS doesn’t go into effect until the November general election.
The GOP and allies need to blanket Philadelphia and environs with volunteers to insure IDs are checked (if such “observers” are allowed in PA).
We are called poll watchers and I carry two 38s and a cell phone, a camera and a movie camera in the precinct that I've been going into since 2004.
It was so corrupt that in 2000, with no pubbie poll watchers, they had 100% participation with algore getting 404 votes and GWB getting 4.
In 2004 we showed up, {legally with cameras and the correct papers} and the voting rate was cut almost in half and GWB still got his 4 votes.
In 2008 less than 50% voted because we were very careful and not one dead person voted {maybe a couple by absentee ballot}.
This year, with voter ID, we will keep the fraud reduced to a minimum but demonRATs will always find ways to cheat.
Their favorite trick is going into old age homes and getting the comatose patients to slobber their consent and get them to vote straight demonRAT.
It's pathetic but they have the help of the union nurses and hospital workers so it's very hard to catch them in the act.
Just some random thoughts ... In the precinct that I vote, (south central PA) there is not much need for Voter ID. The poll workers live on my street and down the road. Going to vote is nearly a neighborhood social occasion. Granted, it is spoiled by the Democrat Navy Vet that wears his service on his sleeve (On an oiler during the Vietnam War ... Must have been a friend of Kerry), but we all know each other. I have seen neighbors in the past offer their ID, only to told, by name, by the poll workers it is not required.
The problem with much of America is not knowing your neighbors. Or should I say, not doing anything about your neighbors. That Navy Vet is tolerated, but he knows where he stands in the community ... which isn't very high. I like to think of him as the one liberal kook that we keep around to remind us what real heroes are. We don't have racial problems, crime
problems, illegal immigrant problems or voting problems. The neighborhood makes sure those things do not become problems.
I guess this model doesn't work in the big city. But if it did it would begin with knowing your neighbors.
Voting turnout in Philly will go down from 120% to 110%, dems gonna be mad.
I live in Renee's hubby's district. As soon as I can afford to hire a couple of guys from Blackwater, I'll start poll watching. You're a brave person. I figure if they ever shot me, Holder would prosecute me for impeding the rightful path of a minority bullet.
What do you think would happen if a state passed a voter ID law with identical verbage with that of the Indiana law?
Wouldn’t it be then fully backed by the SCOTUS ruling?
Doesn’t even need the exact same verbiage to be backed by the highest Court.
“In 2004 we showed up, {legally with cameras and the correct papers} and the voting rate was cut almost in half and GWB still got his 4 votes.”
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That’s good! And with voter ID it should be cut even more.
In the 2004 election I was an out-of-state volunteer (from the People’s Republic of Maryland—where it’s REALLY hopeless) who was bused in (by the RNC) on election day to make get-out-the-vote calls. I was assigned to Blue Bell. Are non Pennsylvanians allowed to volunteer to be poll watchers?
As a native Pennsylvanian (born in Rockhill Furnace in Huntingdon county) who is living in Maryland solely because of my employment, I still have a warm spot in my heart for all things Pennsylvania. And I don’t want to see it go down the tubes like Maryland has.
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