In case you’ve wondered how much damage voter suppression laws might do to Democratic candidates:
The number of Pennsylvanians who might not have the photo identification necessary to vote this November has more than doubled: at least 1,636,168 registered voters, or 20 percent of Pennsylvania voters, may not have valid PennDOT-issued ID, according to new data obtained by City Paper. In Philadelphia, an enormous 437,237 people, or 43 percent of city voters, may not possess the valid PennDOT ID necessary to vote under the state’s controversial new law…
Those numbers are staggering.
Is there any move afoot to challenge the law?
It’s clearly one that penalizes residents of big cities, where public transportation is functional and not everyone needs to drive.
Court challenge started Wednesday.
The Republicans (1%) really don’t like it when too many people vote. It tends to screw up their plans for total domination of the 99%.
Just curious: What kind of ID is required for a concealed carry permit in regressive PA?
Glad Eric Holder is finally taking a break from going after anti-war activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, LA etc, and pot dispensaries and John Edwards and concentrating on real issue of voter disenfranchisement. My nagging question is what were the Dems doing all these days since Repubs have been on the offensive since early 2011? I wonder if Dems are complicit in this. After all, they refused to challenge the 2000 & 2004 presidential election results.
And teh irony, it burns :
http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/naacp-brings-u.s.-voting-rights-problems-before-un-human-rights-commission
Obama and his minions go to UN and bloviate about democracy and all that non-sense when it comes to other countries but he won’t open his mouth about fraud here at home.