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 states new voter ID law is offensive because it calls peoples patriotism into question.
If you care about this country, its 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.
Im 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 states 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 states Voter Hall of Fame because they voted in 50 consecutive elections.
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Here's what it took for me to get a License and Voter Card in Pennsylvania
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sakabatou
(42,146 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)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)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.
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)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.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)1861.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)HOW is it ever good to disenfranchise an entire group of voters? Its like calling Internment camps a VACATION RESORT!
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)meaning if you have no ID you are not allowed to vote.Voting is a RIGHT not a privilege
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)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.
Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)Adding insult to injury.
oldsarge54
(582 posts)This of course gives the Republicans another unsaid message, "if you are against voter id, you are a traitor."