In a blow to voting rights advocates, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson upheld the state’s restrictive voter ID law, which could disenfranchise as many as 750,000citizens in the state. Though voter ID proponents were unable to cite even a single case of voter impersonation that would justify the ID requirement, Simpson “didn’t rule on […]
The Law Has Changed! You need to bring one of these PHOTO IDs to the polls on November 6: A PA driver’s license: currently valid or expired less than 12 months. An ID issued by PennDOT: currently valid or expired less than 12 months. A currently valid U.S. passport. Expired passports will not be accepted. An active duty or retired U.S. military […]
A few weeks ago, an elderly, 96-year-old Tennessee woman was denied the right to vote. She was African American. With the 2012 elections approaching, and the main candidate up for re-election being African American, many in the Black community have been the target of attempts to change voter ID laws that harken back to the […]
