requirements. we think that that s that that will play out in a bit. jim burn, thank you, chairman of the democratic party. tell me about the whole outlook of what you see coming out of harrisburg, what the republicans are up to with the majority there? the first part of your question is there s a court date i believe in july, but they say it s not the voter i.d., that is. they say it s not about cheating to win. well, chris, we talked last october about how they were running around with misrepresentations creating the impression falsely that you needed identification to vote in the november elections. funny how this primary in may of 2013 they re not doing anything remotely close to that. that hearing will be in july. on the second part of your question with respect to the electoral college issue, how is it fair that in pennsylvania how is it fair we would award mitt romney 8 votes when the president got 20 electoral votes under our current system? why would we reward him 8
is that fair? in pennsylvania republicans are attempting a similar stunt. in virginia stricter voter i.d. laws limiting the types of acceptable i.d. required to vote have been passed by lawmakers and has gone to the governor for his signature. the voting rights act is going to be challenged by the supreme court. joining me right now is pennsylvania democratic party chair jim burn and the co-director of the advancement project, an organization that works to protect voting rights, judith browne dianis. i want to talk to you about this thing in michigan. it s so obviously intended to zap the importance of detroit. it s so obvious because you have a lot of minority voters living there, and this just basically says you get one cd. we re going to take the state. that s right. you know, we have to understand that this wasn t just one act, right? first you take over state legislatures in 2010, the gop does that. then what they do is they try to make it harder to vote by passing voter i.d. la
will not be implemented for a little while because the state is moving back off of the idea. every time we went to court, they would lessen the requirements. we think that that s that that will play out in a bit. jim burn, thank you, chairman of the democratic party. tell me about the whole outlook of what you see coming out of harrisbu harrisburg, what the republicans are up to with the majority there? the first part of your question is there s a court date i believe in july, but they say it s not the voter i.d., that is. they say it s not about cheating to win. well, chris, we talked last october about how they were running around with misrepresentations creating the impression falsely that you needed identification to vote in the november elections. funny how this primary in may of 2013 they re not doing anything remotely close to that. that hearing will be in july. on the second part of your question with respect to the electoral college issue, how is it fair that in pennsy
last november was 16. romney, 0. 16, obama, 0 for romney. under the new system, obama would have won 7 electoral votes and romney who lost the popular vote by 10% would git 9 electoral votes. is that fair? in pennsylvania republicans are attempting a similar stunt. in virginia stricter vitter i.d. laws limiting the types of acceptable i.d. required to vote have been passed by lawmakers and has gone to the governor for his signature. the voting rights act is going to be challenged by the supreme court. joining me right now is pennsylvania democratic party chair jim burn and the co-director of the advancement project, an organization that works to protect voting rights, judith brown diane nis. i want to talk to you about this thing in michigan. it s so obviously intended to zap the importance of detroit. it s so obvious because you have a lot of minority voters living there and this just basically says you get one cd.
we re going to take the state. that s right. you know, we have to understand that this wasn t just one act, right? first you take over state legislatures in 2010, the gop does that. then what they do is they try to make it harder to vote by passing voter i.d. laws, and then the third part of their plan is then to change the way the electoral college votes are allocated so that people in communities of color have less power, and so this is the trifecta of the gop plan. we have to understand that, yes, it is not an election year in many places, but god bless them, the gop has a long-term plan on how to win the game. jim, in pennsylvania we know about the votto voter i.d. card. when will it come back into play and the court order and what are the pennsylvania republicans up to in terms of rejiggering the electoral college up there is they can get a big bulk of electoral votes advancement project is involved in the pennsylvania case and we expect that that will be that that i.d.