[EL] PA Sec of Commonwealth study on ID ownership

[Megan Donovan]

PA has a photo ID bill (HB934) that passed the House earlier this year and
will be considered by the Senate when it comes back this fall. So one would
expect the scope of "acceptable ID" referred to in Aichele's statement to
conform to what would be required by the bill. However, I have not seen the
study referred to by Aichele, nor am I sure which study is being referred
to. It would be interesting to know how the 99% estimate was reached.

PA's bill would require voters to show photo ID, defined as (I'm
paraphrasing here)- a document that: shows the name of the individual to
whom it was issued (with the name conforming to the register), has a photo,
has an expiration date, is not expired or expired after the most recent
general election, and was issued by PA or the U.S.

The bill is here:
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2011&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=0934

The fiscal note for the bill says that PennDOT data indicates 3.9% of the
voting population does not have a *state*-issued ID.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/FN/2011/0/HB0934P2166.pdf

An estimate of the costs of the bill put out by the Pennsylvania Budget and
Policy Center used a 2006 PennDOT estimate of the number of individuals
without photo ID (691,909):
http://www.pennbpc.org/voter-mandates-costly-taxpayer#footnote-6







On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Doug Hess <douglasrhess at gmail.com> wrote:

> This quote comes from this press release by the Pennsylvania Secretary
> of Commonwealth found at
>
> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pennsylvania-secretary-of-commonwealth-photo-id-protects-integrity-of-every-vote-128242583.html
>
> "A Department of State analysis shows 99 percent of eligible voters
> already have an acceptable photo ID, and providing free photo IDs to
> every other eligible voter, should they all request one, would cost
> just over $1 million."
>
> Has anybody seen this report? What level of "acceptable" did they use?
>  According to NCSL, PA doesn't have such a requirement so what state
> law are they using to decide that 99 percent of residents have one?
> Here's the NCSL mape on voter ID laws http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=16602
>
> Doug
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