Pennsylvania voters will not be required to produce identification to cast ballots in November.
A Commonwealth Court judge has barred enforcement of the state's 2012 voter ID law until he makes a final determination in the case challenging the legislation.
In his ruling Friday, Judge Bernard McGinley said while poll workers asking for ID was not itself disenfranchisement, a hardship was created for voters by the state's misleading or nonexistent information on the new law's requirements.
Of course, misleading an innnacurate information is a feature, not a bug, when the intent is to try and keep as many people as possible from voting.
With these 300 fraudulent votes created by one Republican candidate alone, that's 300 more fraudulent votes than have ever been created by ACORN or anybody who has ever worked for them.
But, of course, you're unlikely to hear that, or even this story itself, from the tenacious Fox "News" "voter fraud special investigative unit" or the GOP clowns who help them disinform American voters.
As I've noted before, photo ID laws do nothing to prevent this kind of fraud. As I've noted before, impersonating another person at the polls is so incredibly rare, and so easily detected, trying to stamp it out by disenfranchising thousands of legitimate voters is a fool's errand. And as I've also noted before, if a Republican is complaining about something, you can bet that he or she is neck deep in the activity at the root of the complaint, be it voter fraud, teh gays, or whatever.
UPDATE: I still cannot post in comments but Lefty points us to a similar story recently adjudicated in Ohio involving a Democratic poll worker that I was unaware of. The point is, of course, that voter fraud simply doesn't occur in person, when it happens it is by manipulation of the process by insiders, usually via absentee ballot abuse. Voter ID laws do not, and in fact the cannot, address those problems. So again, what is the point other than an attempt to supress turnout?
Only it isn't Acorn, it is, once again, a Republican.
A Martinsville man pleaded guilty in Augusta County Circuit Court Tuesday to fraudulently putting voter signatures on petitions to get former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on the Virginia Republican presidential primary ballot last year.
Adam Dustin Ward, 28, of Martinsville, pleaded guilty to 36 counts of voter fraud and foregery, according to a report by NBC 29.
Ward collected thousands of signatures with similar handwriting with addresses that could not be confirmed.
I've come to the conclusion that because Republicans commit so much voter fraud and voter suppression, they just cannot comprehend that Democrats aren't doing the same. As I've often typed, if Republicans accuse Democrats of doing something wrong, you can bet that they're doing exactly what they're charging Democrats with, only 100 times worse.
We know the Republicans had a computer system called ORCA, which they claimed was to help them get out the vote (and which failed miserably on election day). The letter claims that ORCA had a dark side, which would allow it to tap into computers in at least three states to change votes -- and that Anonymous blocked the computer portals to those states by hacking in to the GOP computer system and erecting a firewall to prevent access on election day, insuring an honest election.
It seems far-fetched, but at the very least, it shows why voting machines should have a verifiable paper trail, for if, as Anonymous claims, they blocked Rove's operatives from changing votes electronically, whats to keep Anonymous from flipping votes the other way?
The Post-Gazette reminds us that the Republicans' voter supression law in Pennsylvania isn't dead yet, and the ACLU is vowing to fight it all the way to get it ruled unconstitutional. In the article, we learn of Republicans complaining that there must be fraud, because some voting districts recorded no votes at all for Romney. Well, I wonder why that might be?
Turns out those districts (a total of 63, four in Pittsburgh and the rest in Philadelphia) are in area dominated by minority voters. How was Romney's pre-election polling with African-Americans? Well, at least one pre-election poll had Romney at ZERO percent African-American support. Daryl Metcalf, The Shame Of Butler County certainly didn't help matters with statements like this in regards to the legal findings in the case: "skewed in favor of the lazy who refuse to exercise the necessary work ethic to meet the commonsense requirements to obtain an acceptable photo ID." Yeah, we hear that dog whistle loud and clear Daryl. Meanwhile, the only cases of in person voter fraud this year, the only kind of fraud Voter ID laws might prevent, were committed by Republicans.
When you run a campaign aimed at trying to garner as much of the old, angry white guy vote, while at the same time insulting everyone who isn't an old, angry white guy and using racist dog whistles at every opportunity, such as the "shared Anglo-Saxon heritage" gaffe, then you really shouldn't be surprised when you garner zero support from the people you're attacking, just like the pre-election polling suggested.
This is reported to be from today in central Pennsylvania.
I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
ST. PETERSBURG — Pinellas elections officials now say that 12,525 people were wrongly telephoned this morning with a message that they had until 7 p.m. "tomorrow" to turn in their absentee ballots.
An election worker in Oregon is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly altering multiple ballots to benefit Republican candidates.
In a press release on Monday, Clackamas County spokesperson Tim Heider said that 55-year-old Deanna Swenson had been "relieved of duty immediately after the alleged ballot tampering was discovered."
Swenson, who was registered as a Republican, was accused of filling in a Republican straight ticket on ballots where voters did not specify a choice.
Contacted by Willamette Week, Swenson tearfully insisted that it was "only the two" ballots that had been altered.
I know, I know, but what about ACORN and Black Panthers??? And yet, all the vote fraud evidence implicates Republicans.
In apparent violation of the law and just days before the election, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted had "uncertified 'experimental' software patches" installed on voting machines in 39 counties.
A Pennsylvania man working for a contractor of the Republican Party was arrested in Virginia on charges of destroying voter registration forms.
Mr. Small was charged with eight counts of disclosing voter registration applications, a felony, as well as four counts of destroying voter registration applications and one count of obstructing justice, both misdemeanors, according to the sheriff's office. Neither the sheriff's office nor the state party knew if Mr. Small has an attorney.
In the case at hand, the registrations were processed, but how many others were destroyed? Is Mr. Small the only one who engaged in this activity? How many people will show up at the polls next month, thinking they registered, only to find they cannot vote because some Republican operative tossed their registration forms into the nearest trash bin?
I think I know why the Republicans think that Democrats are engaged in widespread voter fraud. Its because Republicans areengaged in widespread voter fraud, and they cannot believe that the Democrats wouldn't also engage in the same activities.
