PA. Voter ID Trial: Expert Says Over 500,000 Eligible Voters Lack Required Type of Photo ID

[JPZenger]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130717_Plaintiffs__expert__Half_a_million_don_t_have_voter_ID.html

Excerpt:

"A Philadelphia-based statistician testified Tuesday that as many as 511,000 eligible Pennsylvania voters, a disproportionate number of them minorities, do not possess the forms of photo identification required by the state's voter ID law. Bernard Siskin, testifying for the plaintiffs in the suit challenging the law, told Commonwealth Court that his analysis of data from the Pennsylvania Departments of Transportation and State found that roughly 259,000 of the state's eight million registered voters do not have a valid driver's license or nondriver photo ID, and that about the same number have expired licenses.

Siskin, a former Temple University professor who has done statistical work for the FBI and other government agencies, said that even after factoring in false matches or voters who might have other acceptable ID, almost 2 percent of the 5.7 million people who voted in November would not have been able to vote had the law been fully enforced. "I would say hundreds of thousands of eligible voters in Pennsylvania do not have a valid PennDot ID," Siskin testified. "

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Here's another expert who did an independent analysis that concluded that 400,000 PA. adults lack photo Id.

http://www.phillytrib.com/cityandregionarticles/item/5938-id-law-could-affect-400,000-pa-voters.html
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The wording is a little confusing - I assume these are adults eligible to vote, not necessarily registered voters. Of course, there are hundreds of thousands of eligible people who are not registered to vote, and those persons are probably the least likely to have the required type of photo ID.

PA. has some of the strictest voting laws in the country, in regards to the required type of ID needed to vote, the fact that voters have to register at least 30 days before an election with a signed form that cannot be submitted over the internet, the fact that there is no early voting, and the fact that absentee voting is very restricted.

[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[JPZenger]

2. The Trial Continues - More Experts Testify About High Numbers of Affected Voters

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/expert-defends-study-showing-144-in-pa-lack-voter-id-695811/