READER COMMENTS ON

"Voter Suppression Video of the Moment: The GOP Photo ID Scam Explained in Under 8 Minutes"

(10 Responses so far...)





COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... David Lasagna said on 9/17/2012 @ 5:44 am PT...





Nice job, Brad!!

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... GWN said on 9/17/2012 @ 12:49 pm PT...





This is great but will it get a wide audience or is it only on YouTube? (Somebody's getting chubby cheeks.The nicorette gum must be working.

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 9/17/2012 @ 3:24 pm PT...





GWN said: (Somebody's getting chubby cheeks.The nicorette gum must be working. Who asked ya?

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 9/17/2012 @ 8:10 pm PT...





Nicely done, Brad.

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... karenfromillinois said on 9/18/2012 @ 11:51 am PT...





i would of added...after filming your ward/precinct results compare them to the official tally...and then watch that the official tally does not "change"

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... WingnutSteve said on 9/18/2012 @ 11:52 am PT...





Nice job Brad! Plus, congrats on the nicorette gum working. I quit 13 months ago and have never felt better....

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Gungets Tuft said on 9/19/2012 @ 12:44 am PT...





If you are too lazy to get off your fat arse and get an id, do you deserve a say? I think not...

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 9/19/2012 @ 9:30 am PT...





The comment by Gungets Tuft @7 typifies how dangerously misinformed a large segment of Americans are about this issue. The problem has nothing to do with someone being "too lazy" to get the requisite Photo ID. As we noted in covering the petitioner's appellate brief challenging Pennsylvania's Photo ID law: Obtaining the underlying documentary evidence required to receive a PennDOT ID is a confusing process that can cost money, take years, and is difficult even for lawyers to navigate. Expert witness attorneys who try to assist poor and homeless persons in getting ID, testified that birth certificates can be difficult to obtain because individuals are stuck in a "catch-22" of needing a birth certificate to obtain a photo ID and needing a photo ID to obtain a birth certificate. The problem is especially acute for those at the lower end of the economic spectrum who don't own or drive a car. Nine counties have no PennDOT facility that issues photo ID. Another thirteen counties have PennDOT facilities issuing IDs open only one day a week, and 10 counties have PennDOT facilities open only two days a week. Mass transit options for getting to PennDOT facilities are limited or non-existent in some locations, especially rural locations. In Texas, where a federal court struck down the Lone Star State's Photo ID requirement, some individuals would have been required to travel 250 miles round trip to obtain the requisite Photo ID. In its Per Curium decision, the PA Supreme Court observed: While there is a debate over the number of affected voters, given the substantial overlap between voter rolls and PennDOT’s existing ID driver/cardholder database, it is readily understood that a minority of the population is affected by the access issue. Nevertheless, there is little disagreement with Appellants’ observation that the population involved includes members of some of the most vulnerable segments of our society (the elderly, disabled members of our community, and the financially disadvantaged). Frankly, the petitioner's brief in Applewhite should be mandatory reading for every citizen of Minnesota whom the GOP is seeking to dupe into passing a democracy-destroying Photo ID law as a constitutional amendment.

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... Bubbamusic said on 10/6/2012 @ 12:38 pm PT...





Integrity? Where? Certainly not here. You are not "independent". I am old enough to remember JFK winning when they stumbled on an additional 3000 votes in Chicago (Daley) and Texas (LBJ). Those voters all turned out to be dead. The Dems have a very long history of voter fraud. What is so wrong about an ID anyway. That is what is suspicious about this nonsense.

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 10/6/2012 @ 1:20 pm PT...

