From the WALL STREET JOURNAL:
Eric Holder’s Justice Department is widening its crusade against voter ID laws, beginning an investigation this week into Pennsylvania, a perennial battleground state with a new law requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls. Justice’s decision to wade in comes amid howls from Democrats that the state’s law will suppress Democratic votes enough for Barack Obama to lose the state which he won with 54% of the vote in 2008.
While challenges to states’ Voter ID law have been making similar headlines in Florida and Texas, this is the first time the Justice Department may challenge a voter ID law in a state not required by the 1965 Voting Rights Acts to get federal preclearance for changes to its voting laws. Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department can look into allegations of voter disenfranchisement, but if it wants to follow through in Pennsylvania, it will have to take the state to court for enforcement…
Justice also specifically requests any documents or records “supporting the statement in the governor of Pennsylvania’s press release . . . that 99 percent of Pennsylvania’s eligible voters already have acceptable photo ID.” It also asks for documents regarding the way registered voters can get a state-issued photo ID for free by declaring that it is needed for voting purposes…
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in the East; Pittsburgh in the West; and Alabama in between.
This is obviously from the same set of tricks the Republicans used in Florida where old people with poor eyesight all voted for Pat Buchanan when they thought they were voting for Gore.
I know of a lot of old people whose driver’s licenses expired but never followed up to get a photo i.d. as issued by the state. Someone has to drive them there; that is why they gave up their license to begin with. Also the new requirements since 09/11 make it more difficult to get a photo i.d. because Virginia had issued legal licenses to some of the 09/11 terrorists.
If they were alive they could vote but old people without resources aren’t going to be able to. But they vote Democratic and that is why this law was passed.