Montgomery County will apparently be following Allegheny County Exec Rich Fitzgerald’s lead and issuing photo IDs to any county resident through their nursing home. Corbett’s State Department is admitting this is legal:
Montgomery County’s Democratically-controlled commissioners’ board is expected to take up a plan tonight that could add another wrinkle in the already contentious fight over Pennsylvania’s voter ID law.
The commissioners are set to vote on whether to authorize Parkhouse, the county-run nursing home, to issue photo IDs to any county resident, not just those who work or live at the facility.
The resolution comes as part of an effort to make sure all county residents have access to photo IDs in time for November’s election, county spokesman Frank X. Custer said.
State Department spokesman Ron Ruman described the move as legal, but inappropriate. State law does not restrict colleges or government-run senior centers from issuing IDs to unaffiliated people. But, said Ruman both types of institutions face risks by issuing IDs far and wide.
Awwww, poor babies, “legal but inappropriate”. Isn’t the “hey, it’s legal even if it’s completely political” the go-to excuse for everything the GOP does? NOW they don’t like someone else doing it. Laughable.
There is nothing wrong with requiring a voter ID.
HOWEVER
There IS something wrong with implementing this new law 9 months before a presidential election. If voter fraud was so rampant in the last election, why didn’t the GOP rush to pass this law immediately after the 2008 election? Wait until the 2016 election to impose this, that way it will give people 4 years to get their act together, and THEN you can give them the ‘you have no excuse’ treatment.
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