By Brad Friedman on 12/11/2012, 3:33pm PT  

Well, "at least he was honest", as one observer notes. Via John Stephens at HuffPo...

Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter appeared on a panel Monday hosted by the Pew Center on the States to discuss the long lines and voter ID controversies that plagued the 2012 election. In his comments, Tranter seemed to imply that he believed these issues were helpful to Republicans and should be pursued for that reason.

"A lot of us are campaign officials --- or campaign professionals --- and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines --- whatever it may be," Tranter said with a laugh.

Tranter owns Vlytics, a company that was paid more than $3,000 by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign for "data consulting."

Tranter's actual remarks, and a bit of commentary about them from Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday and Dr. Michael McDonald of George Mason University's Election Project, follow below..


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