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Holder: Texas Voter ID is a 'Poll Tax'

Just in case Mississippi starts to get too cozy thinking it's Voter ID law is going to get past the Feds, Attorney General Eric Holder had http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Holder-calls-Texas-voter-ID-law-a-poll-tax-3697707.phpBlockquote">this to say in Houston yesterday: "we will not allow political pretext to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious right."

Holder's money quote, as quoted by the Houston Chronicle, might at least suggest how the Department of Justice would view Mississippi's law as well: "Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. We call those poll taxes."

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goldeneagle97 11 years, 8 months ago

Calling it like he sees it and I agree!

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