Although it would seem — curiously! — that the New Black Panthers have once again escaped scrutiny.
The Obama administration on Tuesday will wade into the increasingly divisive national debate over new voting laws in several states that could depress turnout among minorities and others who helped elect the president in 2008.
A dozen states this year tightened rules requiring voters to present state-issued photo identification at the polls, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Although Democratic governors vetoed four of the measures, liberal and civil rights groups have been raising alarms about the remaining laws, calling them an “assault on democracy” and an attempt to depress minority voter turnout.
Supporters of the tighter laws say they are needed to combat voter fraud.
With the presidential campaign heating up, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will deliver a speech Tuesday expressing concerns about the voter-identification laws, along with a Texas redistricting plan before the Supreme Court that fails to take into account the state’s burgeoning Hispanic population, he said in an interview Monday…
Meanwhile, Senator John Cornyn has warned Holder not to mess with Texas’ voter ID law.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn sent a clear message to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder this afternoon: Don’t mess with Texas’ voter identification law… “Voter identification laws are constitutional and necessary to prevent fraud at the ballot box,” Cornyn said.
I’m sure that after a thorough investigation, it will be declared that the democratic party never has, isn’t, and never will commit voter fraud. I’m glad that will by, is being, and will always be cleared up!