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Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf says he’s no longer opposed to new voter ID rules
Inquirer ^ | 07/22/2021 | Jonathan Lai

Posted on 07/22/2021 1:23:02 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Gov. Tom Wolf has been clear: No changing Pennsylvania’s voter ID rules.

Any election legislation with new ID requirements is a nonstarter, he and his office said repeatedly as Republican state lawmakers proposed and passed an election overhaul that he vetoed last month.

But in a shift, Wolf now says he’s open to some stricter ID rules, including requiring ID for mail voting. The reason he previously drew a red line, he said, is because he didn’t trust that Republicans would negotiate in good faith and believed they were only interested in voter suppression.

“I’m sure out there is a reasonable voter ID solution to say … you need to show that you should be voting here,” Wolf said in an interview last week. “And I’m fine with that. The formula in [the Republican bill], in my mind, was not it.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: opposed; opposedrulesvotewolf; rules; stopthesteal; tds; tommiethecommie; voter; voterid; wolf
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ID for mail voting??? There should be NO mail voting allowed. Its fraud period.
1 posted on 07/22/2021 1:23:02 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its fraud period.

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That’s what we’re all about these days. Fraud, corruption and lying. It seems to work pretty well for the Dems. Just sayin.


2 posted on 07/22/2021 1:25:06 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His email , phones and polls must be brutal!!!


3 posted on 07/22/2021 1:27:42 PM PDT by ontap
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even tho I don’t believe him, he’s expressing more concern than most Republican governors.


4 posted on 07/22/2021 1:28:58 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Translation: Voter ID is starting to be a popular idea so I can’t say I’m against it anymore. I just want it to be used only in an area that won’t prevent our cheating.


5 posted on 07/22/2021 1:30:12 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wolf sees the voter revolt that will swamp the dems in PA (and elsewhere) next year and is trying to get on the right side of history.


6 posted on 07/22/2021 1:30:47 PM PDT by O6ret
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

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7 posted on 07/22/2021 1:32:46 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Notice how there was no outrage last year over the “emergency” changes that didn’t go through the legislature and are now considered “settled law” without the legislature’s hand.

So now some “reform” legislation comes in and “THIS is new!”.

Same as always.

Why are they passing laws against men in womens’ restrooms? Because judges are forcing all businesses to permit it!

Why are they passing laws against teaching Marxist ideology as fact in schools? Because it wasn’t there before tearing down this country from its foundation.


8 posted on 07/22/2021 1:39:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wolf's name 'Wolf" suits his character... "Wolf" as defined by merriam-webster.com/dictionary:

1: any of several large predatory canids that are active mostly at night, live and hunt in packs.

NOTE: Wolves have long been viewed as threats to livestock and people resulting in significant worldwide declines in their numbers and range size due to persistent eradication efforts.

2: a fierce, rapacious, or destructive person

3: to eat greedily : DEVOUR

9 posted on 07/22/2021 1:43:26 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Tell It Right

Democrat voting fraud is legendary, goes back decades, all the way to Tammany Hall at least. At least as far back as the 1960s I heard any Republican would have to make up for at least a couple million “votes” just to break even. The big city machine political units have always been dirty, and has spread to many states.

It sort of looks like they pulled out all the stops to get rid of you know who, without regard to anything else or the consequences. They are just following orders. But the problem with that going forward, nobody believes these are legitimate elections.

This is a crisis of trust, in our institutions. Nobody has any faith in our “leaders”, they are brazenly corrupt, if not downright wicked. Politics has always been dirty, as I mentioned, but this is beyond anything ever seen. Not a prescription for confidence going forward. The more average people start asking questions, they just start screeching louder.


10 posted on 07/22/2021 1:48:20 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: ontap

because he knows with all the illegals moving to his state, give them all IDs, and they can vote..that’s how the left is going to remedy the whole voter ID thing, let all the illegals have ID cards and they can easily vote


11 posted on 07/22/2021 1:48:46 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wolf and his AG Shapiro belong in prison.


12 posted on 07/22/2021 1:50:02 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah they have no problem with people who show up at the polls requiring voter ID. They’ll just flood the system with fraudulent mail-in ballots that require no identification. These Dems always have an angle. Power is their ultimate goal.


13 posted on 07/22/2021 1:52:46 PM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Must have read the polls


14 posted on 07/22/2021 1:55:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: Tell It Right

spot on


15 posted on 07/22/2021 1:56:40 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: ProudDeplorable

Until these liberals start to feel the pressure in their houses, their clubs, egg and foam on their cars, etc they won’t care. IT”S got to GET PERSONAL-make them fear their livelihood like they have done to us for SOOOOOO long!
Like the commercial a few years back “We’re MAD as HELL and we’re NOT going to TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”


16 posted on 07/22/2021 1:57:25 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: ontap

He doesn’t ‘trust’ Republicans? With Wolfe’s lockdown and subsequent one-man-rule how is anybody supposed to trust him?


17 posted on 07/22/2021 2:00:37 PM PDT by Tallguy
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There should be NO mail voting allowed

Correct. Vote in person on a paper ballot, counted by hand with observers from all parties.

18 posted on 07/22/2021 2:08:58 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ontap

The internal polling has to be terrible as well. The leftists are doubling down and hoping they can “push through” to the other side and win this but it is starting to look bleak for them. The left is so demented that when they decide to fold on voter ID they do it immediately and will also pivot and claim that Republicans hate voter ID.

It is what they do.


19 posted on 07/22/2021 2:42:34 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: O6ret

Tom the Wolf is term limited out of a job come 1/1/23 so he can “say” what he thinks will placate the angry Patriots in the Keystone State. Lots of people out here is the rural sections of the Commonwealth are livid as am I. (We have a summer home here)


20 posted on 07/22/2021 3:00:10 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew must be dethroned...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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