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=By Clara Ritger= =Published by Capitolwire= =6/25/12= = = media type="youtube" key="EuOT1bRYdK8" height="480" width="640" = = =HARRISBURG (June 25)-- Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, told the Republican State Committee on Saturday that the new state voter ID law would “allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” His comment is now circulating on YouTube (@http://youtu.be/EuOT1bRYdK8).= = = =Steve Miskin, the spokesman for House Majority Leader Turzai, said the voter ID law was an effort to combat the real and imminent threat of election fraud.= = = =The law requires all voters to show ID prior to voting at a polling location beginning with the fall 2012 election.= = = =“It was to give a fairer playing field to a Republican candidate, to any candidate… to stop fraud before it happens in order to protect the integrity of every vote," Miskin said.= = = =He said Turzai’s remarks were tailored to the partisan audience to whom he spoke.= = = =“People say partisan things,” Miskin said. “What did you want him to say, ‘Go Obama’? It was a comment to the Republican State Committee. Obviously he was playing to a crowd.”= = = =Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery, said he doesn’t think “Go Obama” is the only alternative to what Turzai told the committee.= = = =“I don’t make up things that laws do based on the audience I’m talking to,” Leach said. “Mr. Turzai was very serious the whole speech. The problem is that he was telling the truth and he forgot we live in the age of YouTube."= = = = = = = =News= =home=