Democratic ward leaders to meet on Voter ID
Party chairman Bob Brady says the Democratic organization has to get engaged to ensure voters will have the necessary credentials to cast ballots in November.
Democratic ward leaders to meet on Voter ID
BOB WARNER
Congressman Bob Brady, the chairman of Philadelphia’s Democratic Party, has called the city’s 69 Democratic ward leaders to a meeting next Monday to address the new state law requiring voters to provide photo ID when they show up at the polls in November.
“We want to make sure that anybody who wants to vote gets the opportunity to vote in November,” Brady said Wednesday. In a letter sent to ward leaders this week, he called the meeting “extremely important” and said he’d be inviting many of the other organizations mobilized this year to help would-be voters obtain the necessary credentials.
The meeting is set for noon at Finnigan’s Wake, the bar and restaurant at 3rd and Spring Garden streets, just next door to the new headquarters that the Democrats expect to open next month.
“The thrust is, the City Committee is not going to wait for the state Supreme Court to decide one way or the other,” said Ken Smukler, one of Brady’s advisers. “The idea is to start preparing now as if we’re going to be under a strict voter ID law in November, to start working now to get voters whatever they will need.”
Other players invited, Smukler said, include the city election commissioners, representatives of the black clergy, the NAACP, various union leaders and the Committee of 70, a leader of a nonpartisan Voter ID Coalition, now comprising 150 organizations around the state.
What's the fuss? Folks living within the barriers will need photo ID for the concert Made in America. I don't hear any complaints about that. Voter ID is a good idea long overdue in Philadelphia, where cemeteries vote, the infirmed vote (without knowing it), and the Democratic votes are counted three times, and the polls stay open late.— Vincent Gaitley- Yes, what is all of the fuss about? I had to show an ID to ship a UPS package at the UPS Store. WTF? Pretty soon we'll have to show ID to use a toilet.
Brady meeting at Finnigan's Wake. Corrupt meeting at a corrupt establishment. They will find ways around the law. That's what Brady does. 
"How are we going to cheat now"?- How are we going to explain the massive over votes the last 40 years?— tr88
- I don't see why there needs to be a meeting on this. Let me help: Polling place slows down mid-afternoon, Democratic poll worker steps into the booth and knocks a few in for Barry. There, I should be a community organizer.— Echo
- Corbett signed the law that everyone knew he would sign in March. And now one of Brady's advisers thinks it's time to start preparing now. Brilliant. That's what we like to see out of government bureaucrats, right on the ball. Anyone wonder why we cant collect property taxes?— tr88
There will be the Georgia/Indiana effect but we are one step closer to:
"SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS"
60% of you have no idea what that means.
After the Romney win, you will know.
After all, look what Corbett did.
— Cuddles- This comment has been deleted. — free market
- Urban culture attracts the young who are almost synonymous with transient and old widows who over the course of 80 years with a single oversight can lose track of critical papers...Still with an accumulation of utility bills and an old work ID and/or student ID, society moved along nicely...Until maiden names and student ID were declared illegal.
How much longer before I am illegal...again?
— Cuddles - This comment has been deleted. — free market
- After Franklin Roosevelt the Republicans initiated a Presidential term limit law.
I always found it humorous that the first time it really came into effect was for Ronald Reagan.
See you in November.— Cuddles - Right, Papers Please Grandpa Tank (aka Cuddles). Oh, that's right. Tank does not have papers. He uses a bong.
Pay you back property taxes Tank. - Wingnuts hired to post crazy things here: just admit what we already know. You don't want blacks, latinos, young people and especially students who tend to know things, to vote. That's the reason that people are made to jump through the most confusing maze that Republicans could ever come up with in order to get their photo ID's. That's why SEPTA passes, School District ID's, employer ID's and dozens of other photo ID's that are readily available were declared insufficient under this travesty of a law. So don't say the problem is that the people don't want photo-ID's; you and your right-wing, fanatical political reps are the ones fighting with every ounce of strength they have to keep them away from anyone who's not a reliable Republican voter.— Stan Shapiro
- Get an ID and shut up about it already.— truthfirst
- “We want to make sure that anybody who wants to vote gets the opportunity to vote in November"
He forgot to add "unless you are under 18, in prison, or mentally disabled. You are denied the right to vote and we don't care".— barlowjames
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