DAILY GRINDER: Bill Would Allow Online Voter Registration
I'm registering to vote...and tumblring. Senator Lloyd Smucker of Lancaster County, who, with a name like that, has to be good, has introduced a bill that’d allow state residents to register to vote online—and, if you can believe it, Smucker’s fellow Republicans seem to be on board. “Based on the experience in other states, online voter registration...
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DAILY GRINDER: Romney, Santorum To Meet in Pittsburgh, Not Philadelphia
We thought Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney were supposed to meet in Philadelphia to discuss their future! That’s what was said, anyway. Remember: “Coincidentally,” explained Santorum’s chief strategist John Brabender on MSNBC, “that meeting [between Romney and Santorum] might take place here in Philadelphia. What a great place to start a winning campaign...
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ACLU-PA To Announce Voter ID Suit
The ACLU said today it will announce a lawsuit tomorrow alongside the Advancement Project, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP), and the Washington, DC law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP, against Governor Tom Corbett and the state over the recently-signed, soon-to-be-enforced Pennsylvania Voter ID law. Several states, including Wisconsin and...
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Seventy Volunteer on Importance of Voter ID Education
Faye Anderson is volunteering for '70.' Faye Anderson, who we last spoke to about her web-based Voter ID app Cost of Freedom, is out volunteering for the Committee of Seventy outside polling places today. Their mission: Inform the public on the new Voter ID law. She says while she’s been handing out the Seventy fliers she was given—which explain which...
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The Ladies of the 8th Ward Sound Off on Voter ID
Ruth Rump has been working Election Day polling places in Center City for the past 25 years. A Committeewoman in the Eighth ward, she’s had to get a number of additional jobs done preparing for today’s primary, mostly due to the recently-passed Voter ID Act. “Each voter here got a memo from me about the Voter ID Act and people at the polls have been directed...
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DAILY GRINDER: The Elections Are Coming! Tomorrow!
There may be some meat to back up Gov. Tom Corbett’s rationale behind signing the Voter ID bill—even if he’s completely unaware of it, maybe. The Philadelphia City Commissioners are investigating cases of “over voting” brought to light by the Philadelphia director for the state Republican Party Joseph DeFelice in an independent analysis, finding that...
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DAILY GRINDER: NAACP Report Card Gives Pat Toomey an ‘F’
...And he plagiarized from Wikipedia! The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is out with its report card for the First Legislative Session of the 112th Congress (2011) civil rights voting, and no member of Congress is safe. The score was based on 20 congressional votes, which ranged from “education to labor, economic development...
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Seventy’s Stalberg Goes on Power 99 Radio to Discuss Voter ID
Zack Stalberg The fight over Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law has essentially become a war of information. Legislatively speaking, it’s over and the naysayers lost. But rather than resign in defeat, groups like the Committee of 70 and Cost of Freedom have taken it upon themselves to inform the public of what the law means so we’re not stuck with our tails between...
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DAILY GRINDER: It’s Still ‘Year Of The Bible’
Image: American Atheists The Year of the Bible resolution, unanimously passed earlier this year in the state House, hasn’t gone anywhere. This despite a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion organization and Philly Rep. Mark Cohen’s petition to undo the resolution he voted for saying he’d introduce “Year of Religious Diversity” legislation as a counterweight—after...
Continue ReadingCost of Freedom Creator: Women Disproportionately Affected by Voter ID
Philadelphian Faye Anderson decided to help create the Cost of Freedom Project, a national web-based application which provides information to get identification to vote, after she realized complaining about voter suppression laws wasn’t getting anyone anywhere. “Back in the day we used to say, you’re either part of the problem or part of the solution....
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