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Pennsylvania Voter Id

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Sidelined For Another Election

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 02.15.2013 | Politics

A controversial voter ID measure in Pennsylvania will again not be in effect for the state's primary elections in May, more than a year after it was s...

WATCH: GOP Consultant: Voter ID And Long Lines Help Our Side

The Huffington Post | John Stephens | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter appeared on a panel Monday hosted by the Pew Center on the States to discuss the long lines and voter ID ...

Amanda Terkel

Confusion At The Polls In Pennsylvania Over Blocked Voter ID Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In October, a Pennsylvania judge blocked the state from implementing its voter ID law in time for the 2012 elections. But his opinion wa...

PA Republican Pols Spend Taxpayer Money Lying to Voters

Don Ringe | Posted 01.06.2013 | Politics
Don Ringe

Voters across Pennsylvania are being robbed of their right to vote by confused bureaucrats who themselves have been ill-trained and misled by elected Republican officials ranging from the governor on down to small-time elected judges.

WATCH: Keep Out The Vote

The Huffington Post | The Political Mashups Team | Posted 11.07.2012 | Politics

Remember the good old days, when voting was as simple as dropping a piece of paper in a box or pulling a lever behind a curtain? Well, they're long go...

Voter ID Ads Approved In State Where Measure Has Been Blocked

Reuters | Posted 01.02.2013 | Politics

By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania has refused to stop the state from advertising...

Amanda Terkel

Voter ID Laws Blocked, But Misinformation And Confusion Spread

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.30.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Voters in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin don't need to show photo ID when going to the polls for the November electio...

GOP-Led Department Accused Of Misleading Campaign

Mother Jones | Posted 10.30.2012 | Politics

Early this month, a federal judge partially overturned Pennsylvania's voter ID law, ruling that the state couldn't require voters to show photo identi...

The Injustice of Voter Suppression

Sanah Imran | Posted 12.11.2012 | Teen
Sanah Imran

The right to vote is absolutely, fundamentally inherent in American citizenship. It is not a privilege reserved for the elite or the political right.

Voter 'Confusion' As Big a Problem as Suppression or Fraud

Andy Bernstein | Posted 12.10.2012 | Politics
Andy Bernstein

It's not just people who lack the required documents who could be kept away from the polls by controversial new voter ID laws. Simple confusion over what IDs meet state guidelines amplifies the potential of these laws to suppress voter turnout.

Voter ID Fight Remains Unresolved

AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 12.03.2012 | Politics

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Just because opponents of Pennsylvania's new law requiring voters to show photo identification won a preliminary injunction in...

'In-Person Voter Fraud... Is Nonexistent'

Posted 10.03.2012 | Comedy

Jon Stewart has characterized voter ID laws as attempting to "cockblock the vote" in the past, and now Pennsylvania's controversial measure has been s...

Trymaine Lee

Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law Halted, But Elderly Still Can't Rest

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 10.03.2012 | Black Voices

PHILADELPHIA -- When Betty Ann Workman was a little girl growing up in Philadelphia’s Tioga neighborhood, Election Day was like a family holiday. ...

Amanda Terkel

Democrats Worry Confusion Over Rules May Depress Voter Turnout

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Most of the signs in the windows of Paulette and Kelly Camp's gas station in tiny Waynesville, N.C. say about what you'd expect them to:...

Judging Voter Suppression: Is it Partisan?

Maya Wiley | Posted 12.02.2012 | Black Voices
Maya Wiley

From these cases, judicial behavior seems less partisan than, well, the behavior of our politicians, and that's a good thing. Still, this snapshot of judicial decision-making suggests that our ideologies follow us into court appointments.

Dan Froomkin

Big Voter ID Ruling Handed Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.02.2012 | Politics

A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday postponed the enforcement of the state's new strict voter ID requirement until after the November presidential electio...

Contentious Voter ID Ruling Could Mean Political Swing

Posted 12.02.2012 | Politics

By MARK LEVY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Some political momentum could be on the line when a judge rules on whether to keep intact Pen...

Nuns Criticize 'Ridiculous' Voter ID Law

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.02.2012 | Politics

A group of retired Pennsylvania nuns has criticized the state's contested voter identification law as "unkind, unfair and ridiculous" because of the h...

Witnesses Recount Voter ID Ordeal

Reuters | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics

* Judge expected to rule on ID law before Oct 2. * Deadline is Friday for lawyers to submit documents By Mark Shade ...

Ruling On Contentious Voter ID Law Is Imminent

Reuters | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics

By Mark Shade HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept 27 (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania judge may rule as early as Thursday on whether to block a voter ide...

Contentious Voter ID Law May Be Blocked, Judge Signals

Reuters | Posted 11.26.2012 | Politics

* Case could influence voter turnout in swing state * State's high court set Oct. 2 ruling deadline (Adds judge's comments from hea...

Controversial Voter ID Measure Back On Trial

Reuters | Posted 11.25.2012 | Politics

(Adds testimony) By Mark Shade HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept 25 (Reuters) - A judge who will decide whether Pennsylvania's new ...

Hurdles to Voter Registration Limit Democracy

Camille Crittenden | Posted 11.25.2012 | Politics
Camille Crittenden

The U.S. has one of the lowest rates of voter registration among modern democracies. In honor of National Voter Registration Day, encourage eligible voters in your social network to register.

Dan Froomkin

Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Shaky As State Efforts Go On Trial

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.25.2012 | Politics

The state of Pennsylvania's ability to get every would-be voter a government-issued photo ID by Election Day will literally be on trial Tuesday. Th...

Dan Froomkin

New ID Laws May Shoot Down College-Student Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.22.2012 | Politics

In Tennessee, a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls explicitly excludes student IDs. In Wisconsin, college students ...