PA turns to social media to educate voters about new ID law
The Corbett administration wants you to "like" the state's new voter ID law. Well, ok, you don't have to "like" it or "friend" it, but at least click on it or follow it. That's the message from the Department of State which has launched a new outreach effort using Facebook and Twitter to inform residents - particularly young people - about the new state voter ID law.
PA turns to social media to educate voters about new ID law
The Corbett administration wants you to "like" the state's new voter ID law.
Well, ok, you don't have to "like" it or "friend" it, but at least click on it or follow it.
That's the message from the Department of State which has launched a new outreach effort using Facebook and Twitter to inform residents - particularly young people - about the new state voter ID law.
The new initiative comes as court watchers await a decision expected as early as today by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson on the fate of the voter ID law.
“We are using the VotesPA website and social media as tools to make Pennsylvania voters aware of the new voter ID law,” said Carol Aichele, secretary of the Commonwealth, whose department oversees elections. “We want to make sure voters understand what IDs are acceptable for voting, and help those who don’t have such IDs obtain the identification they need this fall."
The VotesPA website features a new layout that assists voters in finding information about which photo IDs are accepted at the polls, and how to obtain an acceptable ID. The website contains a “resource center” where voters can view frequently asked questions (FAQs). The information is available in English and Spanish.
The VotesPA website, initially created to help first-time voters, will continue to offer information on the voting process, including how to register, the locations of polling places, and important dates on the election schedule.
Information on the voter ID law is available at www.votesPA.com, pr by calling 1-877-VOTESPA (1-877-868-3772), on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/PADepartmentofState or on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/VotesPA.
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Any Democrat who trusts the GOP governor and bureaucracy to actually help them navigate the swamp of paperwork and expense in order to be able to vote (as they have been doing for decades and longer) is a fool.
The PA GOP has a history of trashing Democratic voter registrations and absentee ballots by the boxload.
Their stated objective is to win the election for their candidates. Of course they have no interest in helping possible Democratic voters overcome the laws they created to block students, minority citizens, and older folks from exercising their right to vote.
Note that in this, like every rethug policy, they are pursuing "identity" politics in which they group people according to who the repuke pols THINK the voters will select. Hence, the effort will concentrate in rural areas and the suburbs and not in the cities where they assume everyone votes for Democrats.
Some estimates are upwards of 10-15 million voters who will be disenfranchised by the GOP efforts. Very telling that all the "voter fraud" coming out recently has been committed by right wing republics. And that the GOP did not utilize any voter ID regs for their primaries.
This entire effort has been political in origin and nature since its unholy birth in the dungeons of ALEC and similar right-wing groups. If they cannot win on their positions, they have to rig the system.
Mission accomplished.— JeffJenk- Any news of indictments coming down for ACORN and their registration scam? How about The New Black Panter Party and their appearing to intimidate voters at the polls? This must be the result of Ying & Yang, Karma and Political ping pong. It's very apparent that those most effected by the law couldn't possibly understand how to use a computer, cell phone or tablet. But the story sounds good if you're trying to make appearances of helping the disenfranchised poor. Wonder if any of them even know how to tell the truth. I recommend that the media bias stop encouraging them.— SocialReject
