Emmaus Patch Facebook Friends Support Voter ID Ruling

has decided to uphold Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law met with some lively debate on both the Emmaus Patch site and on the Emmaus Patch Facebook page. While comments on the Patch site were split down the middle, the conversation among Emmaus Patch Facebook friends for the most part favored Simpson’s ruling.

Here’s a sampling of what Emmaus Patch Facebook friends had to say:

Thirza Peevy: You have to show ID to go to the doctor. You have to show ID to attend college. You have to show ID to write a check. You have to show ID at most jobs. Isn't voting at least that important?

Check out more of the Emmaus Patch Facebook debate yourself and be sure to like the Emmaus Patch Facebook page while you're there.

Peevy went on to share a lengthy list of things that require an ID, garnering five Facebook thumbs up for the comment:

Things ID is required for: adopt a pet

• purchase a home
• purchase an automobile
• purchase a gun
• obtain a bank account
• obtain a credit card
• obtain a passport
• write a check
• make a credit card purchase
• apply for a loan to purchase anything
• to prove your age
• to get married
• to receive a marriage license
• to drive
• to buy a house
• to close on a house
• to get medical care
• to get on a plane
• to get insurance on anything
• to get a job
• to get a post office box
• to get a hunting license
• to get a fishing license
• to get a business license
• to cash a paycheck
• rent an apartment
• rent a hotel room
• rent a car
• rent furniture
• rent tools and equipment
• receive welfare
• receive social security
• receive food stamps
• buy cigarettes
• buy alcohol
• buy a bus ticket
• buy a cell phone
• buy any antihistimine
• go in to a casino
• go in to a bar
• go to college
• have your water turned on
• have your electricity turned on
• have your cable turned on
• have your gas turned on
• obtain trash pick up service
• pick up a package from the post office
• pick up a package from fed ex
• pick up a package from ups
• pick up a prescription

Tamarya Heminitz was one of several Emmaus Patch Facebook friends who supported Peevy’s point of view:

Tamarya Heminitz: I am with you Thirza, I really do not understand what all the complaining is about, if you have lived your life with no responsibility (sic) that you can get by without an ID, then stay out of the voting polls, because you obviously are not dealing with the mess you create by the person you vote into office.

Speaking out on the other side of the issue were Os Leonard and Kevin Kelly.

Os Leonard: The law would have been fine if they had included the transit passes most people in big cities had as I.d.s having a drivers license doesn't mean you're a citizen.

Kevin Kelly: Why don't we go back to the poll tax, that's a much better way to discriminate.