No, but for many not having that license/car means reliance on someone to get you to a place to get your voting ID.

... like I did years ago for my mother. Took all of maybe two hours, including taking her out to lunch. Please ...

BTW ... BREAKING NEWS ... Poor Mrs. Applewhite, scourge of the "Republican Plan" and Champion of the Disenfranchised, actually got HER ID yesterday!! If she can get an ID, with all the difficulties in her life that were CERTAIN to rob her of her Constitutional Rights. anyone can in the three months remaining to the election.

In the meantime, only 0.28% (as of July) of the alleged 1 million "disenfranchisement" potential voters have bothered to see the process through to success.

0.28% ... They don't even care enough to try!

@Mike Why are conservatives so insensitive to hassling people and make them jump through hoops for a basic right like voting? What if Dems were in charge and made a law that forced idiots who didn't believe in evolution or global warming to go a university, talk to a scientist, and grow a brain before they voted? Would you say "OH WHAT WHINERS JUST GRAB YOUR IDIOT GRANDMOTHER AND BRING HER TO A SCIENTIST WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL"? My guess is no.

Not only do elderly, students, and the poor have to be inconvenienced to comply with Republicans trying suppress voters, but now the rest of us have to as well because we have to take time out of our lives to drive them around all day. Sounds totally and completely reasonable to me!

Oh my ... inconvenience ... THE HORROR!!!

I won't stoop to calling those I disagree with "idiots". But you have to admit, not being able to manage "inconvenience" tells you a lot about how some of these people get to where they are in life. Not all, but a good number of them.

Mrs Applewhite made it to a PENNDOT center and got her ID card yesterday. If she can, not many have an excuse for not getting there themselves.

When voter turnout is already only 50% and voting is not a holiday so you have to take off work or really plan around it, any additional inconvenience you add will make less people vote. And look at who gets inconvenienced - poor, women, college students...what a coincidence, the base of the Democratic party! And not only them, but those of us that have to drive them around and wait at the DMV for hours to get their IDs. Sure, we'll do it, but why should we have to? This is clearly a Republican ploy to suppress voters, it's just disheartening to have to live in this system.

Why don't you drive to the DMV tomorrow and wait there for a few hours? If it's not too much of an inconvenience, why don't you prove your point and go yourself?

A few thing here, Robert ...

a) I did my time at the DMV, including getting my mother a PHOTO ID so she could travel by plane.
b) Again with the "inconvenience"?!? Really? Inconveniencing college students?!? You can do that by telling them to get out of bed in the morning! BTW ... That's why they have absentee ballots!
c) If your argument is that "women are more inconvenienced" by the voter ID law (although I don't see how they would be more inconvenienced than men), Republicans have a nice chunk of the female vote as well, meaning the requirements of the voter ID law are applied equally as without discrimination to BOTH democrats and Republicans. Just as Judge Simpson said it is!

You oughta look for another word other than "inconvenience". It doesn't ring very high on the Sympathy Meter.

Got it, Robert. No barriers to voting, no barriers to immigration.

If you don't have an ID to prove who you are, you can't vote. If voting is important to you get an ID.

You always needed ID to vote, now you need photo ID. You always had to prove who you were, now you need to spend money and time to get a *photo ID*. Many Democratic city voters don't have or need a driver's license, so this creates a barrier for them to vote.

Actually, Robert, if someone needs a Photo ID who does not already possess the following: United States Government Photo ID, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Photo ID, Identification issued by a municipality of this Commonwealth, Identification issued by an accredited Pennsylvania public or private institution of higher learning, Identification issued by a Pennsylvania care facility, they can then have the fee of $13.50 waived. They just have to show proof of residency (2 items) and one of the following: (which they would have to prove when registering to vote in the first place...)
Certificate of U.S. Citizenship
Certificate of Naturalization
Valid U.S. Passport
*Birth Certificate with a raised seal
So....maybe you should educate yourself.

Is not a fraudulent vote a violation of MY civil rights? I don't think this law goes far enough - they should also ink our finger.

Hey Mike, very good summary and right to the point that Philly is corrupt and immoral. Next thing we know Obama will issue an 'executive order' not to enforce voter id.
There is proof of voter fraud by the way, hopefully some people have read it. Here is the link http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314273/voter-fraud-keystone-state-john-fund

Joe:
I don't think a President can issue an Executive Order that affects a state-controlled process like voting, can he?!?

Hey,
What do you know. This is a liberal troll poster. This same comment was posted 18 times in at least 8 states. Please take the Soro's money you are earning to post your robo-comments and buy all of the medication your doctor reccomends. When you skip doses or medications it seems you enter an alternate reality world. Just my advice.

I knew I had heard this somewhere else! You can tell right away something's not quite right when they blame R&R for changes in voting laws that only States have control over.

Yeah, she's a working mother alright. Working for a Democrat Super PAC!

In re: #6 "Refuse to invest in crumbling public infrastructure....". Direct quote from Pres. Obama after stimulus money was taken from the future generations pockets "Shovel ready was not as ready as expected". Seems Obama refused to invest our tax money in "crumbling public infrastructure." #10 "Divide the American people on cultural issues (religion, sexual orientation, gun rights, etc.). Obama stated countless times that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. As his campaigning ramped up & realizing that he has no record to run on, he switches or flip flops and decides now marriage can be between whomever. Total ploy that those who do not use their brain,, fell for. Biden's "ya'll..." comment the other day will divide the races. Biden was born in Pennsylvania, he has no southern accent, yet puts one on to pander to the black audience. Whom is dividing the races? Public education has the highest drop out rates in urban area's. Either we continue to throw good tax money after bad or we finally accept there are many in the lower class that do not want the free education offered to them. Why not privatize? A privledge given to all is spit upon by many. Those that wish to learn, will, those that don't will continue what their past generations have done, cry 'poor me' and they'll put their hand out for entitlements instead of accepting the hand up that has been given to them for many years. Instead of listening to so called talking heads, think for yourself.

Has Ron Paul won the republican nomination??

Unfortunately VM there is something else to say. Penndot estimated 9% of PA voters do not have the required ID to vote. You say you have no idea how someone could possibly operate on any level in this society without a picture ID. Well according to Penndot there are something like 700,000 to 900,000 people in PA alone that are operating just fine, so maybe there's more of a problem with your ability to process that possibility and less of a problem with the previous voting system. Voting is a right, annual mamograms at Doylestown Hospital is not a right. I'm sure there are ways to get mamograms without a photo ID. This is a partisan tactic by Republicans to suppress Democratic voters, and I believe *now* there is nothing else to say.

My mother in law is 84 and has many health issues. I take her to doctors all the time. They all require a photo ID. She has always shown them her EXPIRED license, and they accept it, copy it, and give it back. She hasn't needed a current photo ID for anything in her life, until this voting law came up.
It took two visits to the DMV, quite a feat for her since she can barely walk. And I had to argue with the worker there that it was supposed to be free, they wanted to charge for the free ID. My mother in law was tired of arguing and was going to just pay it, until a supervisor told the worker that it is indeed free.

My question is, ok, it's good for everyone to have current ID. But since when do laws take effect so quickly? This should have been put in place for 2016, not this current election. Not everyone has a daughter in law who can take off work TWICE to get them to the DMV.

ann, thats what the state workers job is at the dmv to make photo ids, how is it creepy, u tell me how going to a voting booth and showing your id is wrong??? i can go to 5 different counties and vote for other people u think thats right??? be honest, i don't think u do, and u said are we ok with tax money to verify print mail photo id??? hello thats what the dmv does for a living lol so why is it any different your points are very good sorry, from your answers u seem ok for people to vote using someones else's name u don't care about whats right and wrong, so when someone uses your name for voting and u get something in the mail saing thank u for voting for this person and u never did let us know

Educate yourself:

http://tinyurl.com/voteridlaw