So, you have to do is get trained so you know all the details of the voter ID bill which is what I have done and than go to your local senior centers and help them make sure their ID is valid for voting. Anyone can contact me if you have any questions about voter id. Funny by the end of this we might have more democrats registered. My sister would say sinners repellant!

It will not be repealed because the assembly is mostly GOP and so is the governor. So, you have to get trained so you know all the details of the voter ID bill which is what I have done and than go to your local senior centers and help them make sure their ID is valid for voting. Anyone can contact me if you have any questions about voter id. Funny by the end of this we might have more democrats registered. My sister would say sinners repellant!

I blog on the patch and can answer accurately any questions anyone has on voter id. Is my id valid? How do I get ID? Just click on my name and leave me a question. I will answer ASAP.

Do you know those without a photo ID can use an absentee vote and get around it? SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

Deanna....I just filled out an Absentee Ballot and had to list my PA drivers license number or the last 4 digits of my social security number. Without one of those the ballot application requires another form of ID to be provided, which will be inspected & approved/dis-approved by the Election Office. It is not true that you can get an Absentee Ballot without an ID.

Answering questions at senior centers, helping anyone fill out the paperwork and getting them rides to Photo ID centers.

Wendy, exactly what are you trying to say? That "you met Romeny" and therefore it would be a "disgrace in American progress" if he takes the state of PA? In the name of all that is sane and rational, please do tell how your alleged "meetings" with the Governor equates such an absurd contention.

...and what for Pete's sake does "a state" with the "mentality" of "why earn it" supposed to mean?

Slow down, take a deep breath, and try it again, sweetie.

Yeah, I'm sure that one elderly guy from that group of intentionally no-platform protestors is going to stage a brilliant coup. That's totally worth being worried about.

And what army?

Amen to that Mr. Knowles! Corbett has been anti-State and anti-PA Citizen. His so called "pro-business" platform is in reality, a pro-"selective" business position to pay off to his primary financial backers.

- Corbett and the Republican controlled Legislature have engaged in creating laws that violate the doctor patient privacy by enacting State mandated medical procedures, placing government between patient and doctor.

- Corbett and the Republican controlled Legislature have created voter ID laws that negatively impact (select) groups of voters in an effort to suppress and control elections.

- Corbett and the Republican controlled Legislature are engaged in removing local governing control, to allow corporations (the gas drilling companies) to enter our communities and not adhere to those rules/laws that we as community members have decided are best for our quality of life.

It's not a question of States Rights. It is a question of impeding and denying Americans their Constitutional Right to vote. To exercise their constitutional right to have their voice heard in who represents them.

Earnest....The US Supreme Court has ALREADY decided that it is CONSTITUTIONAL to require a photo ID in order to vote. So which system are you quoting that impedes Americans their Constitutional Right? Maybe you should read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Election_Board

No one in history has every used a fake ID to buy drinks or cigarettes. Seems like a fool proof solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

"The most common example of the harm wrought by imprecise and inflated claims of “voter fraud” is the call for in-person photo identification requirements. Such photo ID laws are effective only in preventing individuals from impersonating other voters at the polls — an occurrence more rare than getting struck by lightning.

By throwing all sorts of election anomalies under the “voter fraud” umbrella, however, advocates for such laws artificially inflate the apparent need for these restrictions and undermine the urgency of other reforms. Moreover, as with all restrictions on voters, photo identification requirements have a predictable detrimental impact on eligible citizens. Such laws are only potentially worthwhile if they clearly prevent more problems than they create.

If policymakers distinguished real voter fraud from the more common election irregularities erroneously labeled as voter fraud, it would become apparent that the limited benefits of laws like photo ID requirements are simply not worth the cost."

Quote from: http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/pdf/TruthAboutVoterFraud.pdf

Obviously and thankfully Renov8 has never voted in PA or else would know that when you go to vote you have to sign the registry and your signature has to match. Hence no cases of in person voter fraud in PA. Many of the people without ID to vote, are not without ID. They just do not have the specific ID necessary to vote. If you were to show a poll worker like me, your veterans ID with your name and picture, and your name is the same in the voting registry, your signature matches and your birthday matches, why wouldn't I, the poll worker know it is you? Does an expiration date change who you are? NO. The reality not the rhetoric. Just for fun can you give me a scenario where someone comes into the polls and the new law will prevent a fraud that wouldn't have been prevented by the safeguards we had in place before the law. I have been challenging State Reps, people who post about it for weeks now and no one can come up with one that id will fix.

Renov8 - A photo ID for those things you mentioned do NOT require an expiration date. This is the scam that is being run on the college age students. The majority of college student ID's do not include an expiration date and will not be permitted to exercise their constitutional right. They often change dorms from one semester to another so having proof via a bill being sent to their current address most likely not something that they have, in addition to the fact that most of their bills go to their parents home.

This is nothing less than the theft of the American peoples voices that one political party does not want to hear, because they didn't like our decision in the last Presidential election. It is a form of suppression that includes poll taxes for some and identity requirements that target specific voters... Those who are students, those who live in urban areas, those who live in very rural areas, and Senior citizens who primarily happen to be of color.

Talk about an anti-American anti-country political party... Those who would rather take down the U.S.A. by swearing to take down an elected American President and those who would rather see less people exercise their constitutional right to have their voices heard and counted.

I agree an expiration date is bogus for an id. I do feel an id is needed to vote.

The politics surrounding this decision cuts both ways. Obama used these same tactics when he ran for his congressional seat. Now the Republicans are using the same in return. All politics aside, Id's should have been a requirement from day one.

Well that leaves one of 2 things, either the poll workers know you because you are their neighbor that they see every election or your poll workers are not adequately trained. I called or emailed every GOP assembly member when this was a bill and told them all the "fraud" they were railing against could be fixed by having better training and accoutability for poll workers. The problem is any legitimate ID is not considered. I have to check the ID of my spouse and children, like i don't know who they are. That requirement alone shows the true intent of the law.

Bill, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1WBBgcvSmg at least the dem vote was close, it was obvious the GOP vote wasn't
And you don't take ID for voice votes.

Thanks Bill. That is another example of voter fraud. I was actually going to use the example from the Republican convention, when they voted not to seat the Ron Paul delegates, when clearly the votes were there to seat them. The entire charade was caught on camera as well as the copy displayed on the teleprompter.

Both parties are so hell bent to win, they will do whatever it takes, and I mean whatever it takes.

We have two months to see this conflagration of the two party system continue to divide this country.

Shame on them.

No, you don't take id's for voice votes, however, a voice vote is a vote. Our congress uses it all the time. Does Yea and Nea sound familiar?

Well, It is effecting republicans too. Jim Cramer's Dad was going to be denied the ability to vote and he tweeted about it. "I have a problem. My dad, a vet, won't be allowed to vote in Pa. because he does not drive, he is elderly, and can't prove his citizenship"
https://twitter.com/jimcramer
Penn dot came to his rescue by order of Corbett to avoid bad press. His dad was a Vet and didn't drive and didn't have the right paperwork to get an ID in time. Think of all those republican Vets that are in the same boat that would have voted Romney and don't have a son with celebrity status to help them out.