Last year, Pennsylvania Republican House Leader Mike Turzai (R-PA) admitted that voter identification efforts were designed to suppress Democratic votes, telling a Republican Steering Committee meeting that Voter ID "is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
Romney ended up losing the state, but Republicans still believe that they successfully kept Democrats from supporting President Obama. As Pennsylvania's GOP Chairman Rob Gleason told Pennsylvania Cable Network earlier this week, the party "cut Obama by 5 percent" in 2012 and "probably Voter ID had helped a bit in that." Watch it:
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