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by back_beyond 3595 days ago
And Democrats wouldn't be trying to import voters!

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ethanbond 3595 days ago
"Voter ID, which is going to allow Gov. (Mitt) Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania -- done."

"I think we probably had a better election. Think about this: We cut Obama by 5 percent, which was big. You know, a lot of people lost sight of that. He won, he beat McCain by 10 percent. He only beat Romney by 5 percent. I think that, probably, voter ID helped a bit in that."

2 Pennsylvania GOP officials (Mike Turzai and Rob Gleason). There you go, it's substantiated!

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sverige 3595 days ago
How do we know the 5% wasn't fewer fraudulent votes?
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jrock08 3595 days ago
Because voter impersonation (which is the only thing voter id laws catch) is incredibly rare. [1]

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/st...

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Finnucane 3595 days ago
Wait, how many states just had their voter ID laws declared racist shite by the courts? How many of them had Republican controlled legislatures?
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