[EL] Philly voter fraud report

[Adam Bonin]

This is the more significant pretrial move in Pennsylvania: the Department
of State has announced plans for a new form of voter photo ID:

 

The new voter photo identification cards are scheduled to be available at
PennDOT's Drivers License Centers beginning the last week of August. The
identification cards can be issued to registered voters who may not have all
of the documents necessary to obtain a non-driver's license photo ID from
PennDOT, primarily a birth certificate.

The IDs, which are free, will be issued to voters for a 10-year period and
can only be used for voting purposes. For Pennsylvania-born voters, PennDOT
will still use the process of confirming birth records electronically with
the Pennsylvania Department of Health to issue non-driver's license photo
IDs for voting.

When requesting these IDs, voters will need to affirm they do not possess
any other approved identification for voting purposes. They will be asked to
provide two proofs of residence, such as a utility bill, along with their
date of birth and Social Security number, if the customer has an assigned
number. PennDOT will validate the voter registration status with the
Department of State while the voter is in the PennDOT office. Upon
confirmation of this information, the voter will be issued the voter card
before leaving the PennDOT facility.

These cards will be issued by PennDOT up to and through Election Day, Nov.
6, 2012, and thereafter.

 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/secretary-of-commonwealth-announces-new-vot
er-id-card-2012-07-20

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Levitt
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 2:41 PM
To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Philly voter fraud report

 

The report out of Philadelphia may be "unscientific" -- in the sense that
its sample of canvassed precincts wasn't random -- and I suspect that the
timing is not accidental.  But it does appear to be an attempt to document
irregularities with real research and primary documentary evidence.  Though
it's important to conduct careful investigation
<http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/pdf/Investigator%27s%20Guide%20to%20Voter%20
Fraud.pdf>  before making allegations of fraud (as I would hope it would be
important to investigate before alleging any criminal activity), the sort of
sleuthing seen in the Philly report is quite rare.  Moreover, the policy
recommendations in the report are actually (largely) related to the
investigative findings, which is another rarity.  If a fraction of the
allegations of fraud did a fraction of this degree of research first, we'd
all be much better informed.

Justin

On 7/20/2012 9:31 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:


 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37200> "Even Shoddy Schmidt Report Shows
'Voter Fraud' Is a Fake Problem" 


Posted on  <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37200> July 19, 2012 1:04 pm by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Keystone Politics
<http://www.keystonepolitics.com/2012/07/even-shoddy-schmidt-report-shows-vo
ter-fraud-is-fake-problem/> : "I think the correct way to understand why Al
Schmidt was willing to put his name on this hilariously unscientific
<http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Schmidt-says-fraud-Singer-says-stu
nt-over-report-on-Philly-voting-irregularities.html>  "study" on voting
irregularities in Philly is that conservative politicians, pundits and blog
trolls needed a passable comeback to the overwhelming evidence that voter
fraud is a fake thing
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/19/is-voter-fraud-a-fraud.htm
l> ."

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