PA Judge Refuses To Block PA Voter ID Law

"The electoral system cannot inspire public confidence if no safeguards exist to deter or detect fraud or to confirm the identity of voters." That was the conclusion of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, headed by former president Jimmy Carter and former secretary of State James Baker. The commission recommended stronger photo-identification requirements at the polls. Its logic was straightforward and convincing: Americans must show photo identification for all kinds of day-to-day activities, such as cashing checks or entering government buildings. The many photo ID requirements we encounter in our daily lives are legitimate, effective security measures. Securing the ballot box is just as important.

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees. In 2008, the court recognized the threat posed by voter fraud and ruled that Indiana's photo ID requirement was a legitimate, non-discriminatory means of protecting the integrity of elections..."

..."In Texas, evidence of voter fraud abounds. In recent years, my office has secured more than 50 voter fraud convictions. Those include a woman who voted in place of her dead mother, a political operative who cast ballots for two people, and a city councilmember who registered foreign nationals to vote in an election decided by 19 votes. Voter fraud is hard to detect, so cases like these are just the tip of the iceberg.

In 2011, Texas enacted a photo-identification requirement modeled after Indiana's. Our Legislature agreed with the Supreme Court that this requirement is a simple, effective way to prevent fraud. History also shows that voter turnout has increased after voter ID laws were enacted, and because Texas provides voter ID cards free of charge, no Texan's voting rights will be affected..."

..."The Supreme Court is on record upholding voter ID laws..."

A more recent survey conducted in February 2008 for the Congressional Cooperative Election Study showed:

62% thought that vote fraud was very common or somewhat common.
28% thought it occurs infrequently or almost never.
60% believed that vote theft is a serious problem.
41% think that voter impersonation happens a "great deal" or "fairly often".

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295431/why-we-need-voter-id-laws-now-john-fund


"...When groups sue to block photo-ID laws in court, they can’t seem to produce real-world examples of people who have actually been denied the right to vote. According to opinion polls, over 75 percent of Americans — including majorities of Hispanics and African-Americans — routinely support such laws.

One reason is that people know you can’t function in the modern world without showing ID — you can’t cash a check, travel by plane or even train, or rent a video without being asked for one. In fact, PJ Media recently proved that you can’t even enter the Justice Department in Washington without showing a photo ID. Average voters understand that it’s only common sense to require ID because of how easy it is for people to pretend they are someone else

Filmmaker James O’Keefe demonstrated just how easy it is on Tuesday when he dispatched an assistant to the Nebraska Avenue polling place in Washington where Attorney General Holder has been registered for the last 29 years. O’Keefe specializes in the same use of hidden cameras that was pioneered by the recently deceased Mike Wallace, who used the technique to devastating effect in exposing fraud in Medicare claims and consumer products on 60 Minutes. O’Keefe’s efforts helped expose the fraud-prone voter-registration group ACORN with his video stings, and has had great success demonstrating this year in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Minnesota just how easy it is to obtain a ballot by giving the name of a dead person who is still on the rolls. Indeed, a new study by the Pew Research Center found at least 1.8 million dead people are still registered to vote. They aren’t likely to complain if someone votes in their place.

In Washington, it was child’s play for O’Keefe to beat the system. O’Keefe’s assistant used a hidden camera to document his encounter with the election worker at Holder’s polling place...O’Keefe’s assistant never identified himself as Eric Holder, so he was not illegally impersonating him.

Nor did he attempt to vote using the ballot that was offered him, or even to accept it. O’Keefe has been accused by liberals of committing voter fraud in his effort to expose just how slipshod the election systems of various no-ID-required states are, but lawyers say his methods avoid that issue. Moreover, he has only taped his encounters with election officials in jurisdictions that allow videotaping someone in public with only one party’s knowledge."

 

National Review. Objective source.

Once again, it's not fraud that is the driver behind these ID efforts. It's the desire to suppress votes. The Republican Party stole the election of 2000 by suppressing votes illegally and these methods have been outed and are now not it its disposal. Now they need legitimize voter suppression.

Please, someone tell me what is wrong with accepting a legally registered voter from proving his identity by signature? Don't answer "what is worng with having to show an ID". Simply answer the question.

 

74% of people support voter ID laws the left doesnt have a leg to stand on with this issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/...WEeGXOe75nF-yhQ

 

That isn't an answer to the question. And the link points to nothing. I'd call you a douchebag, but that would be a little redundant.

 

Voter Id is nothing more than the excuse the leftist will use if Obama loses.

 

You live in france and voted for that tard hollande. what does your country have to show for anything? Airbus? French Spaghetti?

 

What a steaming pile of horse shit.

 

I would rather they have an excuse than a victory.

 

Mindless cut and paste, but I've learned to expect nothing more. Do you really think that voter suppression is a good thing in the U.S..? I think you live in the South, where you are told what and how to think about minorities, but even you know that all this voter ID crap is nothing but blatant racism.

Time to think up another hateful one liner. Hurry up, times a wasting.

 

He he he....... "OHHHHH NOOOOOOO"

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