# Pennsylvania Upholds Voter ID Law

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-upholds-voter-id-law/631582>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 15, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-upholds-voter-id-law/631582 "2012-08-15T17:21:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-upholds-voter-id-law/631582/33 "2012-08-15T20:29:58Z")

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> [@Finagle](#):
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> Well, someone said “And ensuring voter confidence in the results of the election is worth “incommoding” voters.”"
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> But you’d have to be pretty innumerate to think that confidence would be affected by a few dozen cheaters. So we’d have to assume wide spread voter fraud if confidence was being affected, would we not?

No, we would not.

Our confidence is also affected by the knowledge that we could see a repeat of Florida in 2000 or Washington State in 2006, where a very small number of illegal voters could swing a result. A few dozen cheaters does affect confidence.

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