Round up of issues and stories surrounding voting suppression around the country.
I swear to God, if Romney wins this election, there will be an outbreak of riots - and if there aren’t, I’ll be severely disappointed.
- Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking at the NAACP Convention in Houston last week, in regards to Texas’s proposed Voter ID Law.
Governor Rick Perry has requested an apology from him, for using racially charged language to describe the Voter ID law as a “poll tax” during that speech.
Well, Governor Goodhair, once you apologize to Texans for all of your politically charged talk of secession and your refusal to accept federal funds for the ACA and apologize to the 140,000 women because you defunded the Texas Women’s Health Program, I’m sure The Honourable Mr. Holder will see what he can do.
P.S. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you can call it a Voter ID law all you want, but let’s call it what it really is: a poll tax.
WASHINGTON — A panel of three federal judges in D.C. posed skeptical questions on Friday about Texas’ voter ID law during closing arguments in a trial about whether the measure is discriminatory.
The panel of federal judges — Bush nominee Rosemary M. Collyer, Clinton nominee David S. Tatel and Obama nominee Robert L. Wilkins — hopes to issue a ruling on the case in “short order,” according to Collyer, who expressed doubts about the findings of Texas’ experts in the case.
