Racism Lesson #1 for Black Cops: Never Touch an Unarmed White Person - Black PG County Officer tried to cover up role in U-Md. assault

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'Don't Even get Paid a Whole Lot.' Black Cop Apologized for beating white man. The point here is not diminish the unjust actions of any cops but to point out the operating system of white supremacy. "It is rare for a white police officer to be punished for using excessive force against a black man, woman, or child. It is just as rare for a black police officer to use excessive force against a white person. In fact, there has never been a single instance of a black police officer shooting or killing an unarmed white person in the history of modern law enforcement. This is not surprising but it is absolute proof that the black individual operating within a system of white supremacy cannot mistreat whites even if he or she is wearing a uniform, a badge, and carrying a gun." -Anon [MORE] From [HERE] and [HERE] A Prince George’s County police officer caught on video beating an unarmed college student as he lay on the ground during a raucous celebration in College Park in 2010 initially told an investigator that he did not know who swung the baton, the investigator testified Tuesday.

In an April 2010 conversation with Lt. Charles Walls of Internal Affairs, Officer James Harrison said he “couldn’t actually identify himself” in video footage that shows two officers repeatedly striking University of Maryland student John McKenna, Walls testified. Shown the video, Walls said, Harrison initially said he was “more in the middle of the line,” a short distance away from the beating.

Harrison and another Prince George’s officer, Reginald Baker, are facing first-degree assault and misconduct in office charges in connection with the March 2010 incident, which followed a U-Md. basketball victory over Duke.

Prosecutors have said they were the officers caught on tape slamming McKenna with a riot shield after he skipped toward them, then beating him with a baton after he crumpled to the ground. Defense attorneys have argued that Harrison and Baker were merely acting as “foot soldiers” trying to control a violent riot in College Park.

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"White Power": Bowling Green coach Louis Orr's Home Defaced with Racial Graffiti

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From [HERE] You think we're a society moving further along toward universal decency, cultural respect and the near-obliteration of racism -- at least public racism.

Instead, hate and cowardice are still out there with far too much pride and abundance. And now it has hit college basketball again, as Bowling Green coach Louis Orr stepped outside his home on Sunday morning to discover epithets spray-painted on his property.

Police say racist graffiti scrawled on the sidewalk in front of the home of Bowling Green State University men's basketball coach Louis Orr appears to be "a very isolated incident.”

“I'm considering it to be an act of graffiti and vandalism,” Bowling Green Police Lt. Brad Biller said Monday. “I don't consider this a widespread problem in our community.”

About 10 a.m. Sunday, Mr. Orr contacted police after finding that vandals had written “white power” and drawn a swastika in chalk on the sidewalk in front of his Pine Valley Drive home in the Stone Ridge Golf Club neighborhood. Lieutenant Biller said the word “white” also was written on the sidewalk with the crack of the sidewalk used for the i.

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White Prosecutor Drops Charges Against Morgan Stanley Banker who Stabbed Unarmed Arab Cabbie: "GO Back to your Country"

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From [HERE] The criminal case against a former Morgan Stanley MS +2.54% executive charged with stabbing a cab driver following a fare dispute was dropped Monday after a Connecticut state’s attorney revealed that the driver waited to turn the knife over to police. The driver, Mohamed Ammar, “had the knife the whole time,” said supervisory assistant state’s attorney Steven Weiss. “He had ample opportunity to tell police and he didn’t do that.”

The defendant, William Bryan Jennings (in photo), a white man, was charged with assault and hate crimes for attacking Ammar last December after the driver took Jennings from Manhattan to Jennings’ home in Darien, Conn. Ammar claimed Jennings refused to pay the fare and that he drove off with Jennings still in his cab to look for police.

In an ensuing scuffle, Ammar was stabbed in the hand with a pen knife. Ammar, who is from Egypt, also reported that Jennings told him to “go back” to his country. Jennings was at the time Morgan Stanley’s co-head of U.S. bond underwriting. He is no longer at the company. Weiss emphasized that Jennings didn’t immediately call police and described him as uncooperative. But he said Ammar couldn’t adequately explain why he didn’t immediately give the knife to investigators, even after an interview and a search of his cab.

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What Happened in Ohio Part 2? Mittens Inc. Warming up the Electronic Voting Machines

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This November, much of the Ohio electorate will cast its ballots on machines again owned by close cronies of the Republican presidential candidate. In Cincinnati and elsewhere around the state, the e-voting apparati are owned by Hart Intercivic. Hart's machines are infamous for mechanical failures, "glitches," counting errors and other timely problems now thoroughly identified with the way Republicans steal elections. As in 2004, Ohio's governor is now a Republican. This time it's the very right-wing John Kasich, himself a multi-millionaire courtesy of a stint at Lehman Brothers selling state bonds, and the largesse of Rupert Murdoch, on whose Fox Network Kasich served as a late night bloviator. Murdoch wrote Kasich a game-changing $1 million check just prior to his winning the statehouse, an electoral victory shrouded in electronic intrigue. The exit polls in that election indicated that his opponent, incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland, had actually won the popular vote.

Ohio's very Republican Secretary of State is John Husted, currently suing in the US Supreme Court to prevent the public from voting on the weekend prior to election day. As did Blackwell and Governor Robert Taft in 2004, Husted and Kasich will control Ohio's electronic vote count on election night free of meaningful public checks or balances

 

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Racist People See, Racist People Do: White Party (GOP) Group Launches ‘Obama Phone’ Ad that's Definitely Not Racist

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From [HERE] Late last month, conservative media lit up with a video of an African-American woman excitedly praising President Barack Obama because he supposedly gave racial minorities in Cleveland free telephones. The video received prominent placement on the pro-Romney Drudge Report and spawned a popular #Obamaphone hashtag on Twitter. Although there is indeed a federal program which provides low-income people with free or reduced-cost cell phones, it began in 2008 under President George W. Bush. The idea of providing subsidized phone service to low-income individuals originated with a program started under President Ronald Reagan.

Now, the “Obamaphone” woman is the star of an ad sponsored by the Tea Party Victory Fund suggesting President Obama’s policies have “enslaved Americans“:

It’s difficult to view this ad as anything other that an appeal to the visceral reaction its very enthusiastic star is likely to inspire in a certain kind of voter. The ad will run in three Ohio counties — Lucas, Summit, and Mahoning — all of which are predominantly white.

How Puppetican Paul Ryan Pretended to Volunteer At A Soup Kitchen

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From [HERE] Between Mitt Romney’s claim that 47 percent of the country “believe they are entitled to” government  to afford food and Paul Ryan’s assertion that people on food stamps are “takers, the entire Romney campaign has cemented the impression that they are “not concerned about the very poor.”

Ryan might have topped any previous callousness though, when he and his staff apparently “ramrodded their way” into a soup kitchen last week for a photo opportunity without even actually volunteering.

President of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, Brian J. Antal, told the Washington Post that he had no interest in making his organization a political talking point: “we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations… It’s strictly in our bylaws not to do it. They showed up there and they did not have permission. They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors… The photo-op they did wasn’t even accurate. He did nothing. He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.

BET (the "B" is for Bad) Co-Founder Sheila Johnson Says Network Reinforces Negative Stereotypes of Blacks

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From [HERE] At an art festival in Carmel, Calif., this past weekend, one of the founders of Black Entertainment Television (BET) said the network's current content reinforces negative stereotypes of blacks in the U.S. Co-founder Sheila Johnson's comments came this weekend, when she was a speaker at the "Conversations and Encounters" program at the Carmel Art and Film Festival.

Johnson said her proudest achievement with BET was producing the live show "Teen Summit," that brought together dozens of youth from the Washington, D.C., area to discuss issues of the day, from violence to teen pregnancy. The show ran from 1989 to 2002. "All of those young people (on the show) became so successful because they had a voice," Johnson said. "And we were talking about issues out there and they became leaders in life."

The Johnsons sold BET in 1999 to Viacom. Since then, Sheila Johnson has been very open with her disdain for the network. Her biggest gripes are with music videos that reinforce negative stereotypes of young people, African-Americans in particular.

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ACLU Sues Morgan Stanley for Racial Discriminatory lending practices: Lender Targeted Blacks

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In photo, Rubbie McCoy, Detroit homeowner and plaintiff. From [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] against Morgan Stanley over allegedly discriminatory practices leading up to the housing crisis of 2008. According to the ACLU, between 2004 and 2007 Morgan Stanley and its affiliates, including New Century Mortgage Company, violated the Fair Housing Act , Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Michigan Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act [text, PDF] by targeting communities of color for predatory loans. The lawsuit, which the ACLU claims is the first of its kind, was filed in conjunction with the law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein [firm website] and the National Consumer Law Center [advocacy website; press release, PDF] on behalf of five African-American Detroit-area residents. The complaint states:

Morgan Stanley's policies and practices have resulted in considerable racial disparities. They caused New Century borrowers in the metropolitan Detroit region to be significantly more likely to receive Combined-Risk Loans, and thus suffer the harms associated with such loans, if they were African American.

The ACLU requested that the US District Court for the Southern District of New York treat the claim as a class action lawsuit because "as many as 6,000 black homeowners in the Detroit area may have suffered similar discrimination."

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Forget the polls: The Electoral College is what matters - Obama holds a slim 201-181 lead in presumed Electoral College votes

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From [HERE] But what ultimately decides who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is the Electoral College, which has 538 members -- one for each senator and representative and three additional electors for the District of Columbia.

Election Day is Nov. 6, with early voting beginning Oct. 22 in Texas. Electoral College members don't cast their ballots until Dec. 17.

As of this weekend, Obama holds a slim 201-181 lead in presumed Electoral College votes, with 156 votes in a dozen states considered up for grabs, according to RealClearPolitics.com, a nonpartisan polling-data and political-news organization based in Chicago. Less than a week ago, Obama had a 251-181 electoral advantage in the RealClearPolitics.com totals. The numbers are based on the latest polls in each state.

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Black Juror says white Jurors pressured her to convict Black Man on trial for Assault on White Man: (white juror) 'we spoke a lot about race of defendant but it didn't affect our judgment'

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From [HERE] and [HERE] Jurors discussed the race of the defendant, Michael Bent and witnesses before convicting a Deerfield Beach teenager of aggravated battery in June for inciting the 2009 burning attack of Michael Brewer, according to the testimony of jurors questioned in a Broward courtroom Friday.

Bent, who is black, was accused of spearheading a confrontation with Brewer, who is white, on Oct. 12, 2009 at the Lime Tree Village Apartment complex in Deerfield Beach. During that confrontation, Denver Jarvis, who is white, poured a container of isopropyl alcohol on Brewer. Then Jesus Mendez, who is Hispanic, flicked a lighter igniting the liquid. The defendants and the victim are all now 18. Mendez and Jarvis pleaded no contest and are serving prison terms of 11 and eight years, respectively.

But those discussions did not weigh on the verdict, most of the jurors said, and their testimony also failed to support allegations by the jury forewoman that they discussed the facts of the case and reached conclusions before deliberations began in the trial of Matthew Bent, 18, in June.

Bent faces a maximum prison sentence of 15 years if his conviction stands, but he has asked for a new trial based on the accusations of jury misconduct.

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The White Party's (GOP) demographics/people of color problem

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From [HERE] If demographics is destiny, the Republican Party has a rendezvous with irrelevance — unless its policies change. This is the message some Republican leaders have been sending in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. “The demographics race we’re losing badly,” Senator Lindsey Graham recently told the Washington Post with characteristic bluntness. “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

The numbers tell the tale. Minorities have accounted for 85 percent of the country’s population growth over the past decade, according to the US Census Bureau. A record 24 million Hispanics will be eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, up 22 percent since 2008. Meanwhile, nearly 87 percent of registered Republican voters are white. And whites have declined as a portion of the electorate in every presidential election since 1992.

It’s getting harder and harder to cobble together a winning coalition based on the grievances of a diminishing faction of white men, and many Republicans know it. An unnamed strategist was quoted in the National Journal in August explaining that Mitt Romney campaign’s formula for winning the presidency involves capturing 61 percent of the white vote (more than any candidate since Ronald Reagan). “This is the last time anyone will try to do this,” the strategist said.

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Amateur Night for Professional Liar: Ryan Laughed at During the "Debate"

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From [HERE] President Barack Obama may have pulled his punches during his first debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney but the GOP running mate didn’t have the same luck when he met up with Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday. During a segment about the economy, Biden repeatedly took shots at Rep. Paul Ryan over a secretly-recorded video where Romney was seen telling wealthy donors that 47 percent of Americans were “dependent” on government.

“Gov. Romney says 47 percent of the American people are unwilling to take responsibility for their lives,” Biden pointed out, adding that Ryan had also said that “30 percent are takers.” “These people are my mom and dad, my neighbors. They pay more effective tax than Gov. Romney pays,” the vice president continued. “They are elderly people who in fact are living off of Social Security, they are veterans who are — quote — not paying taxes.”

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Karenga: Slapping Every Cheek he Turns- Obama Must Respond to the Great White Hope

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As we watched the debate, we slowly became, even if we don’t want to admit it, somewhat apprehensive about the outcome. Many of us had come to the debate expecting a quick and clear Jack Johnson knock- out; midpoint we decided we could settle for a draw; and by the end we were hoping Obama would not lose it altogether. We could not understand why he would not look up, assert himself, put that pencil down, expose the lies, reaffirm his record, and stop rattling off statistics and observations better for banking and corporate meetings than for TV and a political debate. But we knew that, unlike Jack Johnson who delighted in fighting and defeating his White opponents and thus, the White supremacist assumptions and illusions they held, Obama does not feel comfortable confronting his White opponents, in any arena. And this will be one of his greatest challenges in the next debate and remaining campaign.

We had wanted to remind him that, if a person plays the alpha arctic wolf and flashes fangs, we do not lower our heads in submission or concession. On the contrary, we are to raise up and roar back, to speak truth to power and to the people. Nor are we to find ourselves saying we agree with those who send racist signals to receptive and eager ears, distort our record and rewrite history. And certainly, we are not to allow them to walk away without accounting for arrogantly dismissing and vilifying almost half of the American people and having no vision for moving forward beyond the high tech military and economic prisons of exploitation and oppression in which corporations seek to enclose the world.

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Hearing Rescheduled for White Prosecutor (PA) and wife Charged with Horrific Abuse of Adopted Black Children from Ethiopia

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From [HERE] A white Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General and his wife were scheduled to appear Tuesday in Leetsdale District Court, but the preliminary hearing for the Franklin Park couple has been postponed to Oct. 23.

Allegheny County and Franklin Park police charged Douglas Barbour, 33, and his wife, Kristen Barbour, 30, of Cole Road, last week with two counts each of endangering the welfare of children and one count each of aggravated assault. Douglas Barbour is also charged with simple assault, court documents show.  They were arrested last week after their two adopted Black children from Ethiopia were found starved and beaten to near death according to police.  Barbour has been suspended from his state job without pay, Attorney General Linda Kelly said in a statement.

The couple is accused of abusing an 18-month old girl and 6-year-old boy they adopted from Ethiopia in March, according to a criminal complaint filed by county police. The girl was found with five bone fractures from separate incidents and is feared going permanently blind from her injuries, KDKA reports. She may have suffered a stroke from the bone fractures.

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Black Man Executed by Texas for Killing White Victim: White Appellant Judges Grant White Prosecutor's Request to Lift Stay of Execution

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Supreme Court Refuses to Block Execution From [HERE] A Black man whose lawyers argued was mentally ill and incompetent for execution was put to death Wednesday evening for killing a 12-year-old white girl more than a decade ago.

Jonathan Green, 44, received lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected last-day appeals to spare him. A judge earlier this week stopped the punishment, but an appeals court overturned the reprieve. Then 11th-hour appeals delayed the punishment nearly five hours past the initial 6 p.m. execution time and as the midnight expiration of the death warrant neared. Asked by the warden, who is white, if he had a statement from the death chamber gurney, Green shook his head and replied, "No." But seconds later he changed his mind, saying: "I'm an innocent man. I never killed anyone. Y'all are killing an innocent man."

He then looked down and said his left arm, where one of the needles carrying the lethal drug was inserted, and said, "It's hurting me bad." But almost immediately he began snoring loudly. The sounds stopped after about six breaths. Green was pronounced dead 18 minutes later at 10:45 p.m. It appeared the Supreme Court cleared the way for his execution earlier Wednesday when it rejected an appeal from his attorneys just as the window for the lethal injection opened at 6 p.m. However, the punishment was delayed Wednesday night by another appeal that finally was refused less than two hours before the midnight expiration of the death warrant neared.

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Expect White Supremacy from the Supremes: Highest Court Set to End Race Conscious Admissions to Colleges

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Do Not Expect Justice. From [HERE] The University of Texas’ race-conscious admissions program was not expected to have a good day in front of the Roberts Court today, and the conservative justices did little to change these expectations in today’s Fisher v. University of Texas hearing. At one point, Justice Scalia accused UT of employing armies of race counters in some kind of “affirmative action department.” Justice Kennedy falsely accused UT of creating an admissions program where “race counts above all.” Justice Alito spent much of the argument laying an elaborate trap intended to trick the university’s lawyer into saying that Texas’ nuanced admissions program is akin to a constitutionally forbidden racial quota. By the end of the argument, the primary open question appeared to be whether the five conservatives would overrule the landmark racial diversity decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, or, as Justice Sotomayor characterized the plaintiff’s argument, simply “gut it.”

The most interesting part of the argument came at the beginning, however, and it had little to do with the merits of this case. Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in this case, was a marginal applicant to the university. Her 1180 SAT score is far from distinguished among UT students, and her 3.59 high school GPA places her well below the university’s median. In its brief, UT claims, quite plausibly, that she would not have been admitted even if the university’s admissions policy took no account of race.

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Ohio White Party (GOP) Officials File "Emergency Appeal" to Supreme Court to Stop Early Voting

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The Voter Fraud Con Game. In photo - Last week this billboard declaring “Voter Fraud is a Felony” was put up in Cleveland across the street from a housing project– a clear attempt to intimidate and suppress Black voters in the area. [MORE] From [HERE] Ohio officials filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court[official website] on Tuesday seeking permission to close early voting three days prior to election day for everyone but overseas military personnel. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine filed the request seeking to stay an order by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which ruled that the early voting polls should remain open for the three days leading up to election day. Ohio argues that the circuit court erred in striking down the regulation because:

"[The Supreme] Court has unequivocally held that there is no constitutional right to absentee voting and that laws offering absentee ballots to some voters but not others are subject to rational-basis review unless the law "absolutely prohibited" voters "from exercising the franchise" ... It cannot seriously be argued that any voter—let alone an entire class of voters—has been disenfranchised when Ohio still offers [non-overseas] voters 230 hours of in-person absentee voting, more than 750 hours of absentee voting by mail, and 13 hours of voting on Election Day. The Sixth Circuit's ruling that lower income and lesser educated voters would not be able to vote at all other than through in-person absentee voting on these three particular days finds no support in fact or law."

The Ohio code is being challenged by Obama for America, which argues that that the different election periods for different groups of citizens violates the Equal Protection Clause [Cornell LII Backgrounder] of the US Constitution. The Sixth Circuit's ruling was handed down last week following an appeal filed in September. Earlier that month the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued a preliminary [JURIST report] injunction preventing Ohio from enforcing the early voting limitation.

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Jim Crow Reset for 2016: Federal court allows South Carolina voter ID law to take effect in 2013

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From [HERE] The three-judge panel of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that South Carolina's new voter identification law [text] does not discriminate against racial minorities, allowing it to take effect next year. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] argued that the law violated the Voting Rights Act [Cornell LII backgrounder]. The state responded that such procedures are necessary to prevent fraud. The court held that the new law should go in effect at the beginning of 2013 rather than during the November presidential elections because of the short time left to implement the law without discriminatory effects:

"Because the voters who currently lack qualifying photo ID are disproportionately African-American, proper and smooth functioning of the reasonable impediment provision would be vital to avoid unlawful racially discriminatory effects on African-American voters in South Carolina in the 2012 elections. Even assuming the best of intentions and extraordinary efforts by all involved, achieving that goal is too much to reasonably demand or expect in a four-week period—and there is too much of a risk to African American voters for us to roll the dice in such a fashion."

The court reasoned that the law is valid because it does not deny citizens with non-photo voter registration cards the right to vote if they state the reason for not having obtained one, expands the list of qualifying photo IDs and makes it easier for citizens to obtain one.

South Carolina sued the DOJ in February in an attempt to revive the law after it was blocked [JURIST reports] from taking effect. Six advocacy groups originally called on the DOJ to stop the law [JURIST report]. The coalition argued in a letter to the DOJ that the new law would suppress the minority vote. According to the groups, there are more than 178,000 registered voters in South Carolina who lack a valid photo ID, and African-Americans are disproportionately affected. The groups also argued that African Americans face social and economic barriers to obtaining valid photo ID and that the law is in violation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Mittens' White Party Customers Propose New Logos for GOP Brand- Empty Chair Display Featuring Watermelons & 'Go Back to Africa' Witch Doctor Sign

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In front of a home in Morgan Hill, Ca. and just feet from an official "Mitt Romney for President"  sign sat a chair, empty except for two watermelons. Draped along the side of the chair was a rope tied into a noose with a sign set up to look like a teleprompter that read "Go back to Kenya." [MORE] 

Not to be outdone, Bill Skuby (in photo below), a white man who owns  a men's clothing store in Spring Lake, NJ showed his love for white nationalism by placing in his storefront window a photo of the 44th President of the United States, naked except for a primitive loincloth, with a bone through his nose, witch-doctor style. Underneath the image, a caption is written in black and white: 'ObamaCare - coming soon to a clinic near you.' The 'C' is depicted as a classic Communist hammer and sickle, a symbol not as regularly seen since the fall of the Soviet Union. But his insists he is not racist because he has a bi-racial child. She probably has a good head on her shoulders. [MORE]. Does having a non-white friend, spouse or family member disqualify a white person from being a white supremacist/racist? Anon offers the following: 

Q: What is a “Racist Suspect?”

A: ANY white person who is CAPABLE of practicing racism against non-whites. Since all whites are able to practice racism in a white supremacy system if they choose to do so, it is correct (and logical) to use the term “racist suspects” to identify whites who do not openly function as white supremacists (racists). This is not a hateful, unjust, or racist statement, but it is a logical statement.

Q: What is a “White Supremacist?”

A: A white person (a racist) who practices racism against non-whites. Being a white supremacist has nothing to do with income, title, or status. It does not mean a white person belongs to the KKK, the Aryan Nation, or is covered with Nazi tattoos. A white supremacist can be a soccer mom, a businessman, or a US Senator if they are practicing racism against non-whites. Another term for a white supremacist is “racist white man” and “racist white woman.”

There are whites who:

  • are practicing racism against non-whites at a particular moment
  • are not practicing racism at that moment but have practiced it at a previous time, or will practice it at a later time
  • are not practicing racism at that moment, but say and do nothing to stop those who are
  • are not practicing racism at that moment, but have no problem with other whites practicing racism (don’t care)
  • are benefiting from the crime of racism even if they are not practicing racism at that moment
  • refuse to tell WHO is practicing racism; HOW racism is being practiced; and refuse to help the victims with the information they have
  • oppose racism by exposing and opposing whites who practice it
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White Party (GOP) Objective is Election Day Confusion: Despite Court Order, at Least Five Pennsylvania Counties Still Requiring ID to Vote

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From [HERE] Last week a judge for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a preliminary injunction [opinion, PDF] preventing Pennsylvania's voter identification law [HB 943 materials] from taking effect for the upcoming presidential election. Under the court’s order, voters can be asked for ID at the polls, but a failure to produce the ID wil not prevent them from casting a regular ballot — not a provisional ballot. [MORE] 

Yet, despite this court order, at least five Pennsylvania county websites still falsely inform voters that they need to show ID in order to cast a regular ballot:

  • Butler County: Butler County’s website still tells voters that “[s]tarting with the November 2012 general election, Pennsylvania requires voters to show an acceptable photo identification to vote at the polls.”
  • Bucks County: Bucks County’s website falsely claims that “[i]f you do not have a photo ID or are indigent and unable to obtain one without payment of a fee, you may cast a provisional ballot, and will have six days to provide your photo ID and/or an affirmation to your county elections office to have your ballot count.”
  • Perry County: Perry County echoes Bucks County’s false statement that voters without IDs will only be able to cast provisional ballots.
  • Luzerne County: Luzerne County’s website is similarly incorrect, also falsely claiming that “ALL voters will be required to show a photo ID before voting at a polling place.”
  • Delaware County: Delaware County’s website falsely claims that “Pennsylvania law now requires voters to show approved photo ID to vote at the polls.”

In addition to these five county websites, at least one state university — West Chester University — falsely informs its students that they “MUST present one of the following forms of PHOTO ID when [they] go to their poll place to vote in the General Election this November 6, 2012.”

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