Via MSNBC:
Holder also made his most extensive comments to date on a proposal to renew the Voting Rights Act.
He credited a bipartisan bill, introduced last week by Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat, and Republican Jim Sensenbrenner for going a “long way” towards addressing the Supreme Court’s ruling against the law last June. However, Holder said the bill should patrol voter ID laws more assertively.
“If we can show that that photo ID efforts are done inappropriately and for improper reasons,” Holder said, “that ought to be the basis for federal intervention.”
The bill only counts voter ID violations found by a court – not violations filed by the Justice Department – to trigger supervision of local voting rules. That’s a less stringent approach than the original Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it relies less on the Attorney General’s judgment than the original law.
Holder had strong words for Republicans who use voter ID laws to suppress or distort voter turnout.
“People have to understand that we are not opposed to photo identification in a vacuum,” he said, but it must not be used “to disenfranchise” people for racial or “partisan reasons.” While some GOP lawmakers may have a “good faith” concern here, Holder said, others are disingenuously “using it for partisan advantage.”
“The reality is that all the studies show that this whole question of ballot integrity, in-person voter fraud – simply does not exist,” he stressed. Given all the data, Holder contended, Republicans’ fixation on voter ID suggests “a remedy in search of a problem.” ”It is being used, in too many instances,” he continued, “to depress the vote of particular groups of people who are not supportive of the party that is advancing these photo ID measures.”
"Just goes to prove that you can't fix stupid. Does this jerk know how degrading he is towards people of color to say that they are too stupid to get a picture ID? Any moron off the streets can get an ID. This is all about getting votes from illegal "aliens". This administration is so corrupted it's sickening. Calling black people without picture ID too dim-witted to know how to vote. Why would Holder tell everyone that all that paperwork is to complicated for minorities and that most African Americans are too stupid to go get a free ID. How embarrassing it must be to stand up and tell the world, "I'm an idiot, I'm so stupid I can't even fill out a form for a free ID card." He is as disgraceful and incompetent an Attorney General as his boss is a President. And both are destructive white-hating racists. I can't believe they get away with this excuse. Leftist's treat black people like they are completely helpless. Are we really expected to believe that black people are not capable of obtaining a photo ID? Does this mean the DMV discriminating against them too? Are black people suffering some kind of mental syndrome that I am unaware of? Please NAACP, enlighten me to what is wrong with your people. I don't understand how requiring everyone, both black and white, to have a valid photo ID in order to vote is discriminating against blacks and minorities. If I were a member of a minority, which the way things are going may not be far off, I'd be insulted that Democraps think I can't make the effort or an too stupid to get a picture ID just like everybody else.
Sorry Holder, the only people being disenfranchised in this are those with the honor, integrity and ethics to only vote once. It is very sad that Holder does not believe that "his people" do not have
