Photo ID mandate for Pa. voters awaits Senate vote

Here is Link to update of voter id debate in Pennsylvania.  If adopted in this state of 12.6 million citizens, it would be one of the largest states to adopt the voting reform.

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Fourteen other states require or have approved laws that will require voters to show photo identification, according to the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures.  


Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a similar bill in 2006 but it was vetoed by then-Gov. Ed Rendell on the grounds that it would make voting unnecessarily difficult.


What will become of the latest bill remains to be seen, but with strong Republican support in the House and from GOP Gov. Tom Corbett, its prospects for passage — in some form — appear strong.