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City gets list of people who don't have PennDOT IDs

After months of asking, City Comissioner Stephanie Singer gets list of Philadelphians who do not have IDs issued by state Department of Transportation.

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City gets list of people who don't have PennDOT IDs

POSTED: Thursday, July 12, 2012, 5:09 PM

Miriam Hill

City elections officials on Thursday received the list of the 186,000 Philadelphians who do not have a PennDOT ID for voting in November.

City Commission Chair Stephanie Singer had originally expected to get the data from the Pennsylvania Department of State in May. Her office is analyzing the data to search for patterns based on race, ethnicity, age and other characteristics.

She plans to share the information with the NAACP, the PA Voter ID Coalition and other groups so that they can help make sure all voters get the IDs they need to vote November 16th under a new Pennslyvania law. Her office will provide the data to anyone who wants it for non-commercial purposes. Requests can be made to 215-686-3460, by email to vote@phila.gov, or on line at vote.phila.gov/contact.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:50 PM, 07/12/2012

When (and if)they purge that list of duplicate entries, people who moved away and the deceased, it will probably fit in a notebook page, with room left over for notes.

— DonQ

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:33 PM, 07/12/2012

What's wrong with these people? How do they function in society? Do we want these people voting? I say no.

— bannedrepublican

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:20 PM, 07/12/2012

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— Cuddles

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:02 AM, 07/13/2012

I'm Puerto Rican, and I can both read English and show a proper ID. Scratch me from your list.

— DonQ

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:08 PM, 07/12/2012

90% of those "people" on the list only actually exist in the imagination of liberals.

Most of them are dead, duplicates, or never existed in the first place, even though they all managed to vote in Philly in 2008.

— LtAnger

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:32 PM, 07/12/2012

186k won't make a dent in the outcome with an 8-1 Dem to Repub voter roll and thousands of dupicate, deceased and fraudulent voter registrations

— keapitreal

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:51 AM, 07/13/2012

LtAnger, can you cite anything that backs your claim? Of course, no supporter of voter ID has been able to come up with a single case of voter impersonation. This law is basically a law claiming to outlaw unicorns from voting, but is, in fact, a Jim Crow law to steal yet another presidential election for the GOP as Republican Jim Turzai admitted.

— Blanketman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:05 AM, 07/17/2012

Every comment comes back to the idea that this is some grand scheme to steal an election. If there is no instance of voter-fraud, or impersonation than what is the issue? Each day that organizations like the NAACP, ACLU and others spend money sueing the state to repeal this law is one not spent on assisting those who need an ID. If a portion of this state is concerned about the law then why are they not out and about assisting others getting to location?

— theAngelsofBlood