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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:18 PM Sep 2012

Pennsylvania Wants Voters To Show ID ‘If You Care About This Country’

Source: TPM

Pennsylvania state Rep. Babette Josephs (D) said this week that a 30-second ad meant to educate the public about the state’s new voter ID law is offensive because it calls people’s patriotism into question.

“If you care about this country, it’s time to show it,” a woman says at the end of the ad, which was created for the Pennsylvania State Department by Red House Communications. A spokesman for the State Department was surprised by the criticism. “We thought the ad was great. … I’m stunned,” Ron Ruman told the Associated Press.

The ad, which is part of a $1.3 million media buy, has been running in all the state’s media markets since Aug. 27, according to the AP. Earlier this year, it turned out another firm that received a government contract to educate voters about the law is filled with former Republican staffers.

More than 1.6 million Pennsylvania voters lack a valid state-issued form of photo identification, including more than 1,000 voters who are in the state’s “Voter Hall of Fame” because they voted in 50 consecutive elections.



Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/voter_id_patriotic_ad.php?ref=fpnewsfeed



Here's what it took for me to get a License and Voter Card in Pennsylvania…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021233037

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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
3. I hear Romney is pulling ad buys from PA. I keep wondering if this is why.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:24 PM
Sep 2012

I suspect the Romney campaign is miscalculating here, but I wonder if they've decided to let voter suppression do their work for them in PA, and spend their super-PAC money elsewhere.

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
10. Yep, Romney thinks the PA voter ID law will suppress the vote enough to win it for him. This is a
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:16 PM
Sep 2012

serious problem here and people have gone to sleep on it, not realizing that even if they are registered, it may not be good enough. Little problems, like having one's middle name on the drivers' license, but not on the registration roll. The big problem though is getting a Penn Dot ID. Too many people don't have them.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
5. I knew someone who lived in Babette's district. She did not have good things to say about her
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:28 PM
Sep 2012

Mainly that she was a lifetime politician who did absolutely nothing for her constitutes or anything. But because it was a solidly dem area and she was Babette somehow she managed to get elected again and again and again. Mind you her race was decided during the primaries since the general election this seat is extremely safe democrat.

She actually lost this past primary so the seat will still be democrat (no republican even bothers to run in this district) but someone fresh will come in there and maybe do some good. Brian Sims looks like a great guy to have a representative and a major advocate for LBGT rights, which is huge in this area.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
7. Now they are making propaganda ads to the theme of "Voter ID is good for this country?"
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:53 PM
Sep 2012

HOW is it ever good to disenfranchise an entire group of voters? Its like calling Internment camps a VACATION RESORT!

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
8. What a bunch of dumb asses noticed the ad says IF you want to vote show it
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:56 PM
Sep 2012

meaning if you have no ID you are not allowed to vote.Voting is a RIGHT not a privilege

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
9. When I moved here to Tn I went and registered to vote. They gave me a card and I still have it.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:13 PM
Sep 2012

That should be good enough I would think. I do know many of the people at the poll station because I always go early to the polls. They were the ones who issue me the card. It doesn't have any photo of me on the card. I do have a valid ID drivers license. I used it the last time to vote. But I agree people don't want to go to jail to cheat at voting.

oldsarge54

(582 posts)
12. This Of Course
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 08:14 PM
Sep 2012

This of course gives the Republicans another unsaid message, "if you are against voter id, you are a traitor."

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