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pennsylvania starting off
uh... excuse me
we'll get to that part of uh... pennsylvania
the one where uh... um...
charter schools
or at least a uh... charter school mogul and that pennsylvania area
philadelphia area
now uh... charged and found
in massive fraud
as we speak the
are uh... dealing with a lawsuit brought by the pennsylvania a_c_l_u_
charging that the voter i_d_ law
violates the
states constitution uh... they guarantee right to vote
this is following monday's action by the u_s_ attorney general's office
department of justice
investigating whether the law violates the
federal voting rights act
in the case of of the department of justice they want to know
upon what basis of the republican governor tom corbett
declared that just one percent of residence lacked a valid i_d_ during the
legislative debate over the law of this gets to
the question
as to whether or not
the law has the intent of or
the function
of
disenfranchise ng the voting rights of minorities
and it turns out that uh... the corporate administration
pull this one percent
figure
out of their collective are suits
or perhaps the administration has one ***
it's now i i'm not clear on that we will it do some research it didn't
intermingle it
how much uh...
how many horses
they have in pennsylvania but it turns out
as of the other day well there are several it now reports as to just how
many voters would be disenfranchised
according to
estimates
from the secretary of state
on july third
because they missed secretary of state announced that seven hundred fifty eight
thousand nine hundred thirty nine registered voters in the state or nine
e-mail
percent
may not have pen department uh... transportation heidi's in philadelphia
a hundred eighty six
almost a hundred eighty seven thousand registered voters
were not found it in the pennsylvania d_o_t_ database or eighteen percent
now you will recall
that mike to reside
the majority leader of in the pennsylvania house
said to a bunch of uh... partisans there
that the g_a_ republicans push for a voter i_d_ law
is quote got all our governor romney
romney to win the state of pennsylvania
incidentally that's not a valid reason
to impose a boat or idealized
so that it benefits one candidate is not a valid reason
so you ask well
what could be a valid reason well one valid reason would be that there's a
problem
people are pretending to be other people people are tara tempting to commit voter
fraud
in such numbers that it would be impair the integrity
of the vote in pennsylvania
however
in
filing
the uh... or in defending themselves against this lawsuit from the a_c_l_u_
in pennsylvania
the state of pennsylvania has formally acknowledge
that there has been no reported in-person voter fraud in pennsylvania
that there isn't likely to be any in november
and there could have been no investigations or prosecutions
of involve in-person voter fraud in pennsylvania and the parties do not have
direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other
states in other words
we've never had a conviction we've never had an investigation that where where if
we don't anticipate investing in a
there is no issue here
now i told you that the uh... secretary states initial numbers
were nine percent statewide eighteen percent in philadelphia philadelphia of
course is where president obama
will win the election in pennsylvania because uh... he will get such
overwhelming numbers
in philadelphia unless of course
mike to reside is right
and they're a lot will
allow quote allow governor romney when the state of pennsylvania
we now have a lever
the number of pennsylvanians
as uh... reported by this city paper
in philadelphia
who may not have photo identification
could you have doubled at least two off one point six
million registered voters or twenty percent of pennsylvania voters
forty three percent of voters in philadelphia
because new data obtained by city paper
shows that that many more people have not renewed their licenses
and you can't go in with an expired license
so if you're looking at this in franchising
one-fifth of the population in pennsylvania
of the registered voters already in pennsylvania
and perhaps forty
three percent in the city of philadelphia
and the reason is because
according to the state of pennsylvania
there have been no investigations are prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in
pennsylvania and the parties are not a direct personal knowledge of any such
investigations are prosecutions
and other states
and so they will not offer any evidence in this action an in person voter fraud
is in fact occurred in pennsylvania and elsewhere or even argue quote
that in person voter fraud is likely to occur in november twenty twelve in the
absence of the photo you photo i_d_ line
in other words with the state of pennsylvania is admitting is that
we got no reason to do this
and
it also appears that the
corbett administration
sort of lied
in terms of how many voters
could be disenfranchised by this
america
freedom
on the march
pretty stunning
pretty stunning example of the craving this of the republican party
and uh... you'll note that
we've got these voter i_d_ laws across the uh... the country ten states i
believe
but a judge in wisconsin has ruled uh...
uh... it uh... against the constitution in wisconsin
you've got more voter purging going on in florida
and
think nate silver at five thirty eight
the new york times logged said that disk
all these voting purges could be worth
around one point two percent of the vote
we shall see if the republicans are successful
in uh...
in disrude franchising
millions of people