by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2013 | Voting Issues
Enforcement of the most significant part of the new law — a requirement that voters show photo ID at the polls — will not be in effect for the primary under an agreement struck last week between the state and the plaintiffs who sued. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert...
by Jane Richey | Feb 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Voting Issues
From Political Outcast: When I saw my first zombie movie, I thought, “Really? This is not scary.” They’re slow, for one. And stupid. And they groan. Big deal. But recently, I saw Warm Bodies, a zombie movie that is more concerned with zombies as a metaphor than as a...
by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Voting Issues
The plaintiffs in the voter ID case are set to file papers today asking the Commonwealth Court to extend the block on the voter ID law. It was stopped only for the November election. “Even though there is not a big presidential election, the right to vote is...
by Jane Richey | Dec 18, 2012 | Voting Issues
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who halted photo ID laws in South Carolina and Texas before the November election, suggested on Tuesday in Boston that the United States should consider adopting “automatic” voter registration. This essentially would mean that...
by Jane Richey | Dec 15, 2012 | Politics, Voting Issues
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine Americans’ access to the voting booth and the continuing need for protections against efforts to limit or suppress voting. On Wednesday, the committee will look at barriers voters experienced in the 2012...
by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Voting Issues
This morning in Commonwealth Court, the next steps could be decided in the legal battle over Pennsylvania’s new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. The law passed the GOP-controlled legislature last spring, and was promptly signed...
