voter registration, cut early voting, banned felons from voting for ten years. and attempted to purge thousands of voters from the state s public rolls. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like pennsylvania and wisconsin put in place strict voter id laws. pennsylvania s law was eventually struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minority in low income areas there is no doubt they were meant to help elect mitt romney as president of the united states, and republicans admitted it. voter id, which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. ohio county gop chair doug price put it this way. he said, quote, we shouldn t contort the voting process to accommodate urban red african-american voter turnout machine.
contort the voting process to accommodate urban red african-american voter turnout machine. not accommodating all voters led to record long lines on election day. in the state of florida, there were reports of people waiting in line as long as seven hours to vote. these voter suppression tactics must stop, and president obama said he wants action on it. whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very, very long time, by the way we have to fix that. in the wake of all of this, california senator barbara boxer introduced the line act. it would require an election commission to set new national standards by january 1st, 2014. this commission would decide the minimum number of voting machines, workers, and other resources. the act would hopefully keep voting lines under one hour-long.
board member who voted against early weekend voting said quote, i guess i really actually feel we shouldn t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban red african-american voter turn out machine. nerd, they don t like to help black americans get to the voting polls. in virginia, the department of justice signed off on the law for the first time. residents have to show some form of i.d. to vote and in pennsylvania last week, the a judge refused to block the state s strict new photo voter i.d. law which may disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of people, mostly democrats. with me is mayor nutter of philadelphia. thanks for joining us. let me start with a case in point. a 72-year-old woman comes up to you and lives in a row house in north philly or west philly. she says i m worried, mr. mayor. i don t think i can vote this time. how can i vote? i don t have a driver s license. i haven t driven in years. how do i get to vote? well, those are the kinds of situations that the pe
city government, utilizing every resource we can for all voters is to make sure that every eligible voter has the information that they need. we re printing up materials, issuing new ids, we ll soon be issuing new ids to all of our public employees because municipal governments have to put expiration dates on their ids. through the civic community, through activists in the neighborhoods and all of the electing officials geared up and ready to go to make sure that everyone can vote and no one is disenfranchised in this. let me tell you my problem. i covered katrina, and mayor nager who is not at all of your level said of katrina, we re going to try to get 90% of the people out of the city. that sounded like a good effort, and then 50,000 were left behind the drown, basically. my concern is, i m sure yours is, too, we re going to find
i guess i really actually feel we shouldn t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban red african-american voter turn out machine. nerd, they don t like to help black americans get to the voting polls. in virginia, the department of justice signed off on the law for the first time. residents have to show some form of i.d. to vote and in pennsylvania last week, the a judge refused to block the state s strict new photo voter i.d. law which may disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of people, mostly democrats. with me is mayor nutter of philadelphia. thanks for joining us. let me start with a case in point. a 72-year-old woman comes up to you and lives in a row house in north philly or west philly. she says i m worried, mr. mayor. i don t think i can vote this time. how can i vote? i don t have a driver s license. i haven t driven in years. how do i get to vote? well, those are the kinds of situations that the pennsylvania voter i.d. coalition has geared up along with the com