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Eric Holder: Voter ID Laws Are 'Poll Taxes'

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bluecheese7/10/2012 4:56:26 pm PDT

re: #21 Killgore Trout

I’m not sure if those numbers are correct but let’s suppose they are.

here is a source for the numbers.

When the photo ID requirement was moving through the legislature last winter, Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele advised lawmakers that 99 percent of the state’s voters already had the necessary identification, most of them through PennDOT.

Tuesday afternoon, the day before the July 4th holiday, her department issued a press release disclosing the results of a computerized match between PennDOT’s databases and a database of registered voters.

It showed 758,000 voters statewide – about 9.2 percent – did not have PennDOT-issued ID, either a driver’s license or a non-driver photo ID.

In Philadelphia, the numbers were significantly worse, with 18 percent of registered voters not having PennDOT ID.

sooooo, if you live in Philly, your twice as likely to not have the ID needed to vote. Sure is a good thing that “Republicans aren’t going to win Philly anyways”….. Right?