2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Dark Sage]

I see no where in that article that it states that 750,000 voters would be disenfranchised.

Read it more closely:

State figures also can be hard to nail down. In Pennsylvania, nearly 760,000 registered voters, or 9.2 percent of the state's 8.2 million voter base, don't own state-issued ID cards, according to an analysis of state records by the Philadelphia Inquirer. State officials, on the other hand, place this number at between 80,000 and 90,000.

Guess I was off by 10,000, if the Philadelphia Inquirer is right.

[Roy Karrde]

Read it more closely:

Guess I was off by 10,000, if the Philadelphia Inquirer is right.

If they are going off by the Department of Transportation records, which it seems that they are, then that is a flawed method.

" The 750,000-voter figure, however, includes some cases where there are database-matching problems: for instance, a woman is listed by her married surname in one database and her maiden surname in another may be included on that list, even though she should have few problems voting. It includes some cases of voters whose registrations are inactive. And it includes voters who will have some valid form of ID other than that issued by the Department of Transportation, like a passport, which would still make them eligible to vote. "

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes...fication-laws/

[Dark Sage]

Roy... The Commonwealth Court must prove that NO-ONE will be disenfranchised if they want to uphold the law.

Read the PA Supreme Court's ruling and face reality. They won't be able to do it.

[Roy Karrde]

Roy... The Commonwealth Court must prove that NO-ONE will be disenfranchised if they want to uphold the law.

Read the PA Supreme Court's ruling and face reality. They won't be able to do it.

And yet they should only need to prove they are providing every opportunity to allow people to get free IDs.

[Dark Sage]

Roy, read this. It will tell you what the law truly requires:

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...or-review?lite

Now tell me that the free ID cards are easy to obtain.

Here, I'll spell it out for you:

The agencies are demanding that applicants produce a birth certificate stamped with a raised seal, a Social Security card, and two other forms of identification showing the current residence. The state agencies say if they give the cards out on the more relaxed basis spelled out in the new voter ID law, that would create a homeland security problem, because the cards can be used to board aircraft.

[Roy Karrde]

Roy, read this. It will tell you what the law truly requires:

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...or-review?lite

Now tell me that this is easy to obtain.

Here, I'll spell it out for you:

So in other words, all the state has to do is relax the manner in which to get a card as the law says, seems pretty even handed and something the state should do.

[Dark Sage]

Maybe I should tell you that not one of the justices voted to uphold the law as it was. Not one of the three Republicans.

The two dissenting justices voted to block it entirely.