From the Delco Times:

State Rep. Stephen Barrar, R-160, of Upper Chichester, has again put his name on a bill looking to change the state’s voter identification rules.

House Bill 2519, sponsored by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, and co-sponsored by Barrar, would require all voters to present some form of photo identification at the polls. It is similar to a bill Barrar sponsored in 2005, which was ultimately vetoed by Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.

“Other states have enacted voter ID laws because it’s about protecting the integrity of the election process,” said Barrar. “We know for a fact that there are instances of voter fraud (in Pennsylvania).”

College students are sending absentee ballots home and voting in the precincts of the college they attend, said Barrar. He also recalled a prison voting scam he and then-U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon stumbled upon at Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in 2004, where four young women were apparently helping prisoners with their absentee ballots, a practice prohibited by law.

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