Day: September 3, 2012

Bring Out Your Dead Tarheel Voters

The North Carolina Board of Elections, Friday, was presented with a list of 30,000 dead persons still registered to vote.

It was compiled by the Voter Integrity Project that compiled the list using death records from the state’s Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to voter rolls.
North Carolina does not have a voter photo ID law.
We in Pennsylvania now do.
Bring Out Your Dead Tarheel Voters

Empty Chair Day For Barack Obama

Empty Chair Day For Barack Obama — Labor Day has become  Empty Chair Day. The hashtag #EmptyChairDay has been trending on Twitter all morning.

It is being done in solidarity with Clint Eastwood’s address at the Republican National Convention in which he used an empty chair to represent President Obama.
Millions of people are posting photos of empty chairs, making comments and saying not-so-nice things about our President and Democrats in general.
Luis Rosas, for instance, tweeted the below photo with the caption “My empty chair is busy bowing to foreign leaders”:
Empty Chair Day For Barack Obama
Pam Besteder, happily noted that AMC is having a 24-hour Clint Eastwood movie marathon.
Go Mitt!
Hat tip Cathy Craddock 

Obama Cuts Price On Campaign Stuff

Obama Cuts Price On Campaign Stuff — With presidential election 64 days away and on the eve of the Democratic Party National Convention, what does the Obama campaign do?

They announce a “summer sale” of campaign merchandise!!
That’s right! Those who sent a donation to the campaign sometime in the last year or so have gotten an email from BarackObama.Com saying “Summer’s Almost Over/ 25%  Off Storewide on all purchases of $10 or more with the code summersale”
What’s with the capitalist ploy Mr. President? You didn’t build that.
And you didn’t have to do this in 2008.
Here’s what it looks like:
Obama Cuts Price On Campaign Stuff

Pa. Makes It Easy For Photo ID Voting Cards

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has free Department of State Voter ID cards for registered voters  in need of photo identification for voting, said State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). The  cards can be gotten at driver license centers across the Commonwealth. 

They are available to registered voters who do not have another photo ID acceptable for voting, who do not possess all of the documentation required to obtain a free PennDOT non-driver photo ID, and cannot obtain the needed documentation. 

To obtain a Department of State Voter ID card, a registered voter must complete an oath affirming he or she does not have acceptable identification and then provide a name; address; Social Security number; proof(s) of residence, such as a utility bill; county; and previous name and/or address if changed within the past 12 months. After confirming a voter’s identity and registration with the Department of State, the registered voter will then be issued a Department of State Voter ID card valid only for voting purposes for 10 years. 

Act 18 of 2012 requires all registered voters to present valid photo identification before casting a ballot in every primary and general election in Pennsylvania.