Posted on 02/20/2006 10:10:54 AM PST by hipaatwo
On Presidents' Day at the National Constitution Center, Gov. Rendell announced his veto of a bill that would have required all voters to show identification when they go to the polls.
Rendell said that the bill, which passed the legislature last week on largely parti-line votes, would have the effect of disenfranchising those without easy access to identification, including nursing-home residents, displaced families, the very poor and those without a driver's license.
In addition, he said that the identification requirement, which now applies only to people voting at a polling place for the first time, would slow the voting process on election days, likely causing some would-be voters who are pressed for time to leave without casting ballots.
The governor said the bill also might be unconstitutional.
Eileen Melvin, who chairs the state Republican Party, called the bill "incredibly responsible," citing other provisions that would enhance access to voting for the disabled and for military personnel serving overseas. As for the identification requirement, she noted that people now need to show identification to write a check, board an airplane, even to walk into an office building.
An override of the veto is highly unlikely, given the relatively narrow margins by which the bill passed the state House and Senate and the solid Democratic opposition to the bill.
Don't forget the dead. We wouldn't want to disenfranchise that staunch group of Democrat voters either.
Dead voters, voters who vote multiple times, out-of-state- voters and Illegal Alien voters-for-profit: One and all constituency of the DemocRATS.
Believe me, they all played a role in moving back. Along with hoagies, Tastykake and even Scrapple. It may be junk, but it's OUR junk.
LOL ewww Scrapple. Now they make Turkey Scrapple.
Put I thought that the brothers and sisters were in charge in phila, so that can't be true.
Any of the One-Party Democrat cities will be electorally corrupt. Democrats cannot hope to retain power any where elections are honest. They are like Socialists and Communists in this regard; except that they do not openly murder their political opponents.
Murder would be too honest. Character assassination, slander and libel is a Democrat's style.
I agree
Don't forget scrapple.
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