As state attorney general, Corbett prosecuted ZERO cases of voter fraud [View all]

[PA Democrat]

I missed this great column by Tony Norman that was published a few days ago, but it raises some very salient points.

Republican-dominated statehouses are rushing to pass beefed-up voter ID legislation ahead of the November presidential election. Republican governors are rushing to sign them while droning, in solemn tones, that "voter integrity" is at stake.

Pennsylvania's new law signed this week by Gov. Tom Corbett requires voters to show photo identification at the polls, just in time for the April primary and the November election. Funny how as Pennsylvania's former attorney general, Mr. Corbett never found the time to prosecute a case of the voter fraud his fellow Republicans insist is rampant in the state.

The GOP estimates that only 90,000 citizens across the state will have trouble getting the required photo IDs to prove their identities. Liberal groups, meanwhile, estimate that as many as 700,000 might be discouraged from voting under the new protocol.

The point is that Republicans are willing to risk seeing at least 100,000 fewer voters at the polls in November -- most of whom presumably lean Democratic -- all in the name of "voter integrity." Whoever said voting should be easy in America must have been a Democrat.


http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/tony-norman/gop-makes-a-phony-case-for-voter-id-law-358920/?p=1