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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Pennsylvania Exit Polls
There were no poll workers outside the Plains Twp.
fire hall when
I was recorded as voter number 550 out of 1000+ at about 5:30PM today.
This is the best turnout I have seen in the 15 years I have voted in
this precinct. This is even better than 2008 and Plains is a very Democratic area. The poll workers are people Mrs. G
has known since she was a child and looked us up as soon as we walked
up to the sign in table so we didn't show a photo ID and neither did anyone else who voted before of after us. I have never voted a straight party ticket and didn't this time. I wrote in David Yonki for State Rep because Eddie Day Pashiniski is unopposed and I hate uncontested elections.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
PA Voter ID
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court kicked the voter ID law back to the Commonwealth Court with a narrow question. Can PennDot handle the task before the election? I'm not optimistic.
SPPE has more.
SPPE has more.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court sends Voter ID law back to Commonwealth Court
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Kathleen Kane on Voter ID
Kathleen Kane today called on the Corbett
Administration and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General to remove
roadblocks to efforts determining whether Pennsylvania’s new Voter ID
law violates voters’ constitutional rights.
“The U.S. Attorney General is authorized under the Voting Rights Act to investigate whether political processes discriminate against the voting rights of minorities,” Kane said. “Rather than stonewalling, Pennsylvania should be making every effort to fulfill the Department of Justice’s request to ensure that no Pennsylvanians are disenfranchised by this law.”
It was reported earlier this week that the Corbett Administration is resisting a July 23, 2012 request of the Department of Justice to compile and send information about the Voter ID law as part of the Department’s examination into whether the new law is discriminatory.
“The Corbett Administration claims that DOJ does not have authority to seek this information. That argument is just not legall
“The U.S. Attorney General is authorized under the Voting Rights Act to investigate whether political processes discriminate against the voting rights of minorities,” Kane said. “Rather than stonewalling, Pennsylvania should be making every effort to fulfill the Department of Justice’s request to ensure that no Pennsylvanians are disenfranchised by this law.”
It was reported earlier this week that the Corbett Administration is resisting a July 23, 2012 request of the Department of Justice to compile and send information about the Voter ID law as part of the Department’s examination into whether the new law is discriminatory.
“The Corbett Administration claims that DOJ does not have authority to seek this information. That argument is just not legall
y
valid.” Kane added. “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which
prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis
of race or color, requires examination of the ‘totality of
circumstances’ in determining whether a violation has occurred. This
request for information to determine the totality of the circumstances
is a reasonable and responsible inquiry by DOJ. “The Administration
should stop playing politics and comply.”
Kane says Corbett impeding review of voter ID law
Thursday, August 16, 2012
PA Voter ID law upheld
Despite the Secretary of State stating that she didn't even know what is in the law and the Commonwealth couldn't cite just one example of in person voter fraud and hearing countless testimony of people who would be denied the right to vote a Republican judge denied a preliminary injunction to prevent it from being enforced in the upcoming election. It will be appealed to the PA Supreme Court which is now split 3-3 because Republican Joan Orie Melvin is awaiting trial.
So we are stuck with this law and the Democrats better get on the stick. I got an email from the PA Democratic Party Today's decision by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson clears the way for the Voter ID bill to take effect. This is not good news for Pennsylvania voters. The Voter ID bill passed by Harrisburg Republicans is an expensive and unnecessary piece of legislation. t's a solution without a problem....We already started an aggressive field plan to make sure PennsylIvanians have the IDs they need to vote in November. Then they asked for money.
Our local Democratic legislator's are quoted in Bill O'Boyle's story in the TL saying they are reaching out to constituents to educate them about the new requirements. Estimates are between 500,000 and 1 million people in Pennsylvania on the voter rolls don't have the proper identification. Getting an acceptable ID is not the easiest thing to do as PBPC documents. PennDOT is just not ready to do this!
The logical thing to do is to phase in the implementation of the law like many other states, like Georgia, did but that is not going to happen.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has put up a Website, Facebook and Twitter account to help comply with the new law which will sure help the people who can't afford the intertubes or are old enough not to care about it..
The new website has been designed by a Romney fundraiser.
votesPA
The only way to stop this madness is to elect Democrats to the State House and Senate so they can repeal this law.
Now that that this non-existent problem has been dealt with the Republicans in the legislature can deal with
So we are stuck with this law and the Democrats better get on the stick. I got an email from the PA Democratic Party Today's decision by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson clears the way for the Voter ID bill to take effect. This is not good news for Pennsylvania voters. The Voter ID bill passed by Harrisburg Republicans is an expensive and unnecessary piece of legislation. t's a solution without a problem....We already started an aggressive field plan to make sure PennsylIvanians have the IDs they need to vote in November. Then they asked for money.
Our local Democratic legislator's are quoted in Bill O'Boyle's story in the TL saying they are reaching out to constituents to educate them about the new requirements. Estimates are between 500,000 and 1 million people in Pennsylvania on the voter rolls don't have the proper identification. Getting an acceptable ID is not the easiest thing to do as PBPC documents. PennDOT is just not ready to do this!
The logical thing to do is to phase in the implementation of the law like many other states, like Georgia, did but that is not going to happen.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has put up a Website, Facebook and Twitter account to help comply with the new law which will sure help the people who can't afford the intertubes or are old enough not to care about it..
The new website has been designed by a Romney fundraiser.
votesPA
The only way to stop this madness is to elect Democrats to the State House and Senate so they can repeal this law.
Now that that this non-existent problem has been dealt with the Republicans in the legislature can deal with
Leash Laws for Unicorns
Friday, July 13, 2012
PA voter ID law
The Pennsylvania legislature recently enacted a voter suppression ID law that supporters say is a common sense measure to ensure that people who vote are who they say they are. After all a photo ID is required to buy alcohol or fly on an airplane. Critics contend that this is another way that Republicans are trying to rig the next election since in person voter fraud is non existent. This is on top of the Citizens United decision that threw out the campaign finance laws that lets billionaires who make their money in China spend unlimited amounts of money in an American election. Foreign money in an American election used to be illegal. Before that PA Republicans wanted to change the way we cast our Electoral College votes changing winner take all to allocating them by Congressional District.
Locally there have been shenanigans with absentee ballots but the only case I remember of in-person voter fraud was when W-B Area school director Joe Moran's kid was up for a seat on the WVW School board but it came out that he had been voting at his old man's address in the Miner's Mills section of Wilkes-Barre. Even then he only voted once but at the wrong address.
Before Tom Corbett became Governor he was the Attorney General of the Commonwealth but he didn't prosecute one case of voter fraud. He was busy with the Bonusgate investigation that put Democrats in in jail and ignored the allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
To help sell this new law the Corbett Administration gave a contract to a Romney fundraiser.
TNC: Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has signed a $249,660 contract with a company run by Mitt Romney fundraiser, former state GOP party executive director, pharmaceutical lobbyist, and school voucher advocate Chris Bravacos to direct a media campaign promoting the state's Voter ID law.
Yes, that very same law, requiring that voters present identification at the polls, which critics contend will suppress Democratic-leaning non-white, poor, elderly and youth voters and which House Majority Leader Mike Turzai recently boasted (video) is “gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”
See a video produced by this outfit of overly happy people showing a card that is supposed to resemble an ID. Also confuses the issue by saying “other kind of photo id” will be accepted, without explaining what that means.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBQhp7dUkGE&feature=youtu.be
!7th CD candidate Gene Stilp is calling Bullshit and filed a lawsuit.
In July 2005, the Pennsylvania Legislature voted themselves a illegal pay raise in the middle of the night.
Like many of us, Gene was outraged that our legislators could be so greedy. He wanted a symbol to show the waste and abuse of the system shown by these legislators.
From that, your favorite 25 foot pink pig was born and became famous!
Locally there have been shenanigans with absentee ballots but the only case I remember of in-person voter fraud was when W-B Area school director Joe Moran's kid was up for a seat on the WVW School board but it came out that he had been voting at his old man's address in the Miner's Mills section of Wilkes-Barre. Even then he only voted once but at the wrong address.
Before Tom Corbett became Governor he was the Attorney General of the Commonwealth but he didn't prosecute one case of voter fraud. He was busy with the Bonusgate investigation that put Democrats in in jail and ignored the allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
To help sell this new law the Corbett Administration gave a contract to a Romney fundraiser.
TNC: Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has signed a $249,660 contract with a company run by Mitt Romney fundraiser, former state GOP party executive director, pharmaceutical lobbyist, and school voucher advocate Chris Bravacos to direct a media campaign promoting the state's Voter ID law.
Yes, that very same law, requiring that voters present identification at the polls, which critics contend will suppress Democratic-leaning non-white, poor, elderly and youth voters and which House Majority Leader Mike Turzai recently boasted (video) is “gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”
See a video produced by this outfit of overly happy people showing a card that is supposed to resemble an ID. Also confuses the issue by saying “other kind of photo id” will be accepted, without explaining what that means.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBQhp7dUkGE&feature=youtu.be
!7th CD candidate Gene Stilp is calling Bullshit and filed a lawsuit.
Don't miss the biggest, pinkest birthday party you've ever seen! Come celebrate the birth date of our beloved Pignelope!
In July 2005, the Pennsylvania Legislature voted themselves a illegal pay raise in the middle of the night.
Like many of us, Gene was outraged that our legislators could be so greedy. He wanted a symbol to show the waste and abuse of the system shown by these legislators.
From that, your favorite 25 foot pink pig was born and became famous!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
I admire his candor
Speaking to the PA Republican state committee House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) said "Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life
legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter
ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of
Pennsylvania, done.”The statement drew a loud round of applause from the audience.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Pennsylvania exit poll
A grand total of only two poll workers was outside the Plains Twp. firehall when
I was recorded as voter number 146 out of 1000+ at about 4:30PM today. This is the worst turnout I have seen in the 15 years I have voted in this precinct. It's hard to say who's campaign this helps or hurts but it means we are all losers when so few people bother to participate in the process of selecting our leaders. The poll workers are people Mrs. G has known since she was a child and looked us up as soon as we walked up to the sign in table so we didn't show a photo ID. We capped off the afternoon of doing our civic duty by paying our property taxes at the collectors office. We turned around our IRS refund by using that money to pay the county and township taxes. Great timing.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
A solution in search of a problem
Mundy to vote against needless, expensive voter ID bill
HARRISBURG, March 13 – State Rep. Phyllis Mundy today will vote against the so-called "Voter ID" bill that would disenfranchise residents and waste millions of dollars during a time the Governor has proposed another round of painful budget cuts.
"I believe strongly in the concept of one person, one vote," said Mundy, D-Luzerne. "If there was any substantial evidence of voter impersonation that could justify the expenditure of millions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars, I would be among the first to sign on to a solution. But the fact is, there is no such evidence."
Mundy noted that many organizations, including the League of Women Voters, the American Association of Retired Persons and the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania oppose House Bill 934.
"This bill has been mislabeled," Mundy said. "It's not a voter identification bill. It's a voter suppression bill that will deny many of our citizens their most fundamental right in a Democratic society."
The Brennan Center for Justice reported that as many as 11 percent of eligible voters do not have a government-issued photo they would need to vote under this legislation. Obtaining the identification will be time-consuming and for many, difficult.
Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has said it would cost $4.3 million to implement the legislation. Mundy added that there likely will be additional costs to defend the legislation in court. A judge in Wisconsin has struck down that state's voter identification after a legal challenge. The U.S. Justice Department blocked South Carolina's voter ID bill in December and has stepped in to block Texas’ voter ID law.
"At a time when the majority in the House, Senate and Governor's Office are cutting vital human services to our frail elderly in nursing homes and cutting early childhood education for our children, they are wasting time, money and effort on a problem that doesn't exist," Mundy said
HARRISBURG, March 13 – State Rep. Phyllis Mundy today will vote against the so-called "Voter ID" bill that would disenfranchise residents and waste millions of dollars during a time the Governor has proposed another round of painful budget cuts.
"I believe strongly in the concept of one person, one vote," said Mundy, D-Luzerne. "If there was any substantial evidence of voter impersonation that could justify the expenditure of millions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars, I would be among the first to sign on to a solution. But the fact is, there is no such evidence."
Mundy noted that many organizations, including the League of Women Voters, the American Association of Retired Persons and the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania oppose House Bill 934.
"This bill has been mislabeled," Mundy said. "It's not a voter identification bill. It's a voter suppression bill that will deny many of our citizens their most fundamental right in a Democratic society."
The Brennan Center for Justice reported that as many as 11 percent of eligible voters do not have a government-issued photo they would need to vote under this legislation. Obtaining the identification will be time-consuming and for many, difficult.
Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has said it would cost $4.3 million to implement the legislation. Mundy added that there likely will be additional costs to defend the legislation in court. A judge in Wisconsin has struck down that state's voter identification after a legal challenge. The U.S. Justice Department blocked South Carolina's voter ID bill in December and has stepped in to block Texas’ voter ID law.
"At a time when the majority in the House, Senate and Governor's Office are cutting vital human services to our frail elderly in nursing homes and cutting early childhood education for our children, they are wasting time, money and effort on a problem that doesn't exist," Mundy said
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