Voter ID law may affect more Pennsylvanians than previously estimated

From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:

More than 758,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania do not have photo identification cards from the state Transportation Department, putting their voting rights at risk in the November election, according to data released Tuesday by state election officials.

The figures – representing 9.2 percent of the state’s 8.2 million voters – are significantly higher than prior estimates by the Corbett administration. Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele has repeatedly said that 99 percent of Pennsylvania’s voters already had the photo ID they will need at the polls in November….

Republican lawmakers pushed the bill through the legislature in March and it was signed into law by Gov. Corbett, over protests from Democrats that the measure would disenfranchise thousands of voters, disproportionately affecting those without driver’s licenses – the poor, the elderly, and the young…

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EDITOR: Jim Crow law enacted in Pennsylvania.  Less thah 1/10th of 1% voter fraud detected but 10% of the registered voters must go to herculean efforts to have the right to vote!    Hopefully the courts will throw out the law as unconstitutional.

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  1. If the politicians are so worried about voter fraud, why don’t they clean their own house first!

    How many votes are made by members not in attendance?

    How many votes are made by sticking a paper clip in their voting switch?

    How many other fraudulent actions are taken in the legislature that the public doesn’t know about?

    Let he who is without fraud cast the first vote!

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