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Castor, Richards React to Voter ID Law Decision
Montgomery County Commissioners Bruce Castor and Leslie Richards react to the news that Judge Robert Simpson has upheld Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law.
Montgomery County Commissioners Bruce Castor and Leslie Richards were in Norristown at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Elmwood Park Zoo's new parking lot expansion when news that Judge Robert Simpson upheld Pennsylvania's controversial Voter ID law requiring voters to present a valid photo ID at the polls in order to vote.
When they learned of the decision, Castor and Richards offered their thoughts on the news to Patch.
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Mary Ellen Digregorio
10:58 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
How much boo hoo more dose one want to do insteat get you butt out of you home and go get your picture taken. This should not be a problem only for the Politicans that were able to raise the Dead on election day with there absentee votes. Or by sending in someone to make a vote because the person they have on record is this severe mental handicap person that has no idea and is too many disibilities to make a sound vote so that Party that pushing for their canidate get that extrat vote in. This is know as VOTER FRAUD. SO because we have to produce a photo ID to prove you are that person behind the Curtain voting we have all these Politicns Crying Boo Hoo..... Oh well git goes with that Saying SHIT HAPPENS :-)
Jake
12:38 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
You need a photo ID to:
Drive
Buy alcohol
Buy cigarettes
Apply for welfare
Apply for food stamps
Cash a check
Purchase a firearm
Make any large credit card purchase
Open a bank account
Rent an apartment
vote.......YES!
Be admitted to a hospital
Get a marriage license
Mohandus Frieri
10:53 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Idiocy Jake.
None of those points are relevant because voting is a constitutional right. So keep on pulling out your photo ID to buy condoms, borrow library books, buy pornography, or strap one on.
Doesn't matter. Voter fraud has never been prosecuted or investigated in PA. Why??? Because it is illegal and it never happened.
Randy
4:15 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Lots of people do none of those things. As an example, my grandmother. She does not drive, doesn't drink alcohol, doesn't smoke, no welfare, no food stamps, doesn't need ID to deposit a check to her own account, doesn't need to buy a firearm, doesn't have a credit card, has an existing bank account, owns her home, and is a widow. As for the hospital, if she is found unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, the hospital still has to admit her with or without ID.
Hammurabi
2:34 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012
AND buy a weapon - A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT!
Stacie Dale
8:57 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
How will this work with absentee voters? Will you have to send in a photocopy of a photo ID with your paper ballot? Curious because my Grandmother is 87 and has never driven a car, so she's never had a license, and she is disabled and unable to vote in person anymore. She has voted absentee for the last 10 years since she became ill. What do we do now?
Steven Long
10:45 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Stacie, I believe the provision is for people voting in person. That aside, if someone is voting in person, they do NOT need a drivers license, merely a government photo ID. Government ID is available free of charge. Aside from that, how do you curb the voter fraud when people are voting from the grave. Would it surprise you to know my father (registered Dem) was ill during an election, and did not vote in person, or via absentee ballot. Apparently, someone though they would be nice, and voted for him. Imagine that!
freeandequalpa
9:58 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
For anyone interested in a detailed summary of the Court's opinion:
http://freeandequalpa.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/petitioners-request-to-enjoin-enforcement-of-photo-id-law-denied/
Janet Rosen
11:27 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
If you want people to be able to get a photo id you need to make it accessible for all. ie mobile units, drug stores, post offices not only drivers licenses stations. Else this law is nothing more than voter suppression just like Jim Crow laws of old.
Uppler Dublin Resident
Stacie Dale
5:08 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Just got confirmation from Voter Services that no photo ID is required for absentee ballots since on an absentee ballot you give your SS#. Relieved that I won't have to take my Grandmother to get a photo ID since she is not well.
Dolores Herrmann
7:08 am on Friday, August 17, 2012
Even with voter ID who checks for double SSN or photos? There are people who get numerous IDs giving different addresses, some are empty lots, and vote many times in different districts. Computers are needed to verify SSNs and addresses to see if individuals actually reside there. Using utility bills helps but a boarder wouldn't have those. There are many flaws but still a good law.
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