From the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Op Ed:
LAST YEAR, as president of the Philadelphia Young Democrats, I had the opportunity to engage our membership in a bipartisan event with Republican leaders on the heels of some of the most tragic partisan incidents in recent history. When my group sat down for the event, “Peace in Politics” with our Republican counterparts, I had no idea that the GOP was going to decide, for the most cynical of reasons, to reintroduce the poll tax. What a difference a year makes.
The state House and the governor of Pennsylvania have, by passing the voter-ID bill, set us forth on a course designed to disenfranchise millions of people across the commonwealth. While I remain confident that either we’ll win this fight in the courts or that the federal Department of Justice will block this law – as it has in Texas and a host of other states that overreached – the Republicans have done this terrible thing in the cleverest of ways, and that requires an answer. For the Philadelphia Young Democrats, voter registration and turnout is essential. This includes unobstructed access to the polls.
By arguing that voter fraud must be stamped out, the Republicans mask their true intent to deny millions of people easy access to voting. They do this with a feigned appeal to the common good. The Republicans choose to align themselves, using this tactic, with the very worst of the race-baiting Jim Crow laws of the first half of the 20th century. Those laws were written to prevent fraud as well. What they did instead was prevent millions of African-Americans from voting. It wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 that African-American voting rights were protected federally…
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This strikes me as a lot of baloney. If a person doesn’t have a photo ID in the 21st century then they’re probably are not in a position to make a good election choice anyway. I’m not sure what they think in Philadelphia, but I don’t like the idea of dead or imaginary people casting ballots.
The problem of voter corruption is not of people coming to the polls as someone else, some dead person. The problem of voter ID fraud has little, if any, documented proof.
Where fraud can occur is where the election officials act in collusion and falsify the vote count. One wonders in Conoy Township, where the vote is 95% or greater Republican, how padded that nights totals become. How many really come out to vote and how many were added behind closed doors?
Is a state driver’s license even proof of citizenship? The 09/11 hijackers got photo i.d.’s in Virginia. I guess they would vote Republican if they were still alive.