A statistician testified on the second day of Pennsylvania’s latest trial over the constitutionality of the state’s voter identification law that hundreds of thousands of voters could be disenfranchised if the law is allowed to stand.
Bernard Siskin, a statistical expert who served as a consultant for a variety of government agencies and companies, including the FBI, testified that about 511,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania lack the state-issued IDs required at the polls under the new law, which was passed last spring but has yet to be enforced.