Surprise. “House Republicans say new data from the State Board of Elections show far fewer voters lack photo identification than the numbers cited by critics of a voter ID bill up for debate this week.” How many fewer? About half. New data, which State Elections Director Gary Bartlett says his office will publish Wednesday, put the number of registered voters without photo ID at about 318,000, down dramatically from the previously reported 610,000. There’s more. “A spokesman for Speaker Thom Tillis argues the number may be less because about 115,000 of those identified in the latest analysis haven’t voted in the last five elections.” So inaccurate, out-of-date voter rolls provide false support for the anti-ID crowd? One more reason it’s no surprise that the same parties who oppose voter ID also oppose cleaning up state voter rolls.