Can’t tell you how nice it is to see that people finally seem to be getting it. At least people on Reddit, where someone linked to our recent story on last week’s court ruling finding that the Pennsylvania GOP’s polling place Photo ID restriction law was in violation of the state Constitution’s fundamental right to vote.
For years, I’ve found myself showing up at similar Internet nether-regions and being forced to respond in comments to idiotic questions about Photo ID laws and claims of pretend “voter fraud”, since so few seemed to understand the scam.
If this Reddit comment thread is any indication, folks are finally beginning to understand it and, all by themselves, are able to bury the Fox “News”-infested stooges who have either been conned or just hate democratic values like the right to vote and equal protection for all.
Check out all of the great responses below (happily, none by me!) to the one simple question posted in comments there: “What’s to stop someone from walking into the polling station, saying your somebody else and casting a vote?” With each reply from a different person, the Redditors buried the dude…
Good stuff, Brad. Positive for real voting rights.
You have inadvertantly shown what people really think and know vs. what the corporate media filter says people are thinking and what they know.
As long as we have rightwing talking heads spouting false information to the cult, you will have all the republicans do everything they can get away with to stop people from voting. The worst part is the 5 right wingers on supreme court is all for letting it happen. When a largely republican district can vote in 20 minutes and someone in a large democratic district has to stand in line for over 5 to 6 hours should be classified as voter fraud.
The Reddit comment by “royLJelly” in response to the question — “What’s to stop someone from walking into the polling station, saying your somebody else and casting a vote?” — standing alone, was worthy of note:
As I pointed out in comments on the original piece, Judge McGinley was especially troubled that, under the PA statute, a student Photo ID would not be sufficient if it doesn’t contain an expiration date — this despite the fact that the Commonwealth conceded “the expiration date requirement is completely unrelated to confirming a voter’s identity.”
The judge suggested that the way the law was “written suggests a legislative disconnect from reality.”
The Reddit comment calls to mind a commercial that aired featuring Bob Dole shortly after he lost to Clinton. The lady waiting on him kept saying how excited she was to wait on him, but when Dole sought to pay by check, she said: “Got any ID?”
It appears that, in Utah, Republicans have succeeded in making the absurd a reality.