Does Eric Holder really care about voter ID in Texas?
Artist
2012/07/13 14:40:00
During his speech on Tuesday to the NAACP Eric Holder vilified the Texas law requiring voter identification as another attempt to prevent blacks from voting.
I don't know about you but I'm getting real tired of hearing from the left how states should not be allowed to enforce or require voter ID during elections. I've had mine for 37 years...it's called a drivers license. Don't black people have to have an ID to cash a check or deposit a check? Holder lost his bid to cancel a purge of voter registrations in Florida. That purge found Florida had over 25,000 dead people still on it's voter rolls. Isn't it odd that an Attorney General should only support one or two groups of people in this country and not everyone? Blacks and dead people?
So if I understand Mr. Holder, all 50 states (or 57 according to obama) should not require personal identification for elections because it would cause an undue burden for poor and elderly black people.
What a crock!
He might as well have said "It's not fair that you are taking away our right to commit voter fraud!"
I don't know about you but I'm getting real tired of hearing from the left how states should not be allowed to enforce or require voter ID during elections. I've had mine for 37 years...it's called a drivers license. Don't black people have to have an ID to cash a check or deposit a check? Holder lost his bid to cancel a purge of voter registrations in Florida. That purge found Florida had over 25,000 dead people still on it's voter rolls. Isn't it odd that an Attorney General should only support one or two groups of people in this country and not everyone? Blacks and dead people?
So if I understand Mr. Holder, all 50 states (or 57 according to obama) should not require personal identification for elections because it would cause an undue burden for poor and elderly black people.
What a crock!
He might as well have said "It's not fair that you are taking away our right to commit voter fraud!"
In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to prevent fraud.
It was the most important voting rights case.
The law "is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,'" Justice John Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy. Stevens, one of our Liberal Judges wrote the opinion.
So if the Supreme Court already ruled 4 years ago, why is Holder doing this. Does he really believe he has more authority and power than the Supreme Court?
edited to correct spelling
Now, the arguement becomes the cost of obtaining the materials needed for the ID. However, since this is the "poorest of the poor" that we are looking at, let's take a look at what this class would need an ID for in order to obtain gov't assistance with other aspects of their lives. A person would need valid ID for:
1. Getting welfare in the US
2. Obtaining food stamps in the US
3. Obtaining public housing in the US
Hmmmm....it wouldn't be too much to think that a majority of this population already has some sort of ID with them or has enough (social security card--free, Birth Certificate, etc) that it would not cost them a dime to get the Photo ID that would be necessary to vote in their State.
Holder..Black Panther? Or Black Muslim?
All ignorant and racism piled on by an Atty.Gen. of the USA..what a "jewel" of a guy(not)
If we don't get Obama and Holder out in November it may well be a very long time before another presidential election.
If the requirement was only being placed on poor and elderly black people, then there would be an issue and he would have my full support. I don't understand, and you will have a hard time explaining to me, how it is any harder on poor and elderly blacks than it is on anybody that is poor or elderly. If the DNC, or anybody else for that matter, is truly concerned about voters being disenfranchised by an ID to vote requirement, they are free to organize drives to get folks where they need to go to get their ID. At age 43 I had to show ID to get a bottle of beer at a 7/11 store. There are so many things in everyday life that are far less important than voting, yet they require you to produce valid identification. I don't even know how folks get by without ID.
i just looked up requirements for government benefits, SSI (including disability), in addition to welfare all require photo identification...so poor/disabled people have to have an ID to get government money. His logic is invalid. He just butthurt dead people won't be able to keep his toadies in office.