Atty. Gen. Holder Takes Aims at New State Voting Laws

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Atty. Gen. Eric Holder hints that he may challenge some laws placing new restrictions on the voting process. He also proposes that the federal government automatically register all citizens to vote.

Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. denounced recent state laws that restrict voting and, citing the long struggle to ensure voting rights for all, hinted that the Justice Department would challenge some of them in court.

In a speech Tuesday at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Holder quoted Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a veteran of the civil rights movement, as saying that voting rights were being attacked in “a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students [and] minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in the democratic process.”

“The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of our system of government. It is the lifeblood of our democracy,” Holder said. “Many Americans, often for the first time in their lives, now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to one of our nation’s most noble and essential ideals.”

Holder proposed that the federal government automatically register all citizens to vote.

“Today, the single biggest barrier to voting in this country is our antiquated registration system,” the attorney general said. “All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote.”

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  • Daniel L. Skillman

    Should we congrtulate Mr. Holder on becoming, far and away, the absolutely most corrupt Attorney General in the history of the office?

  • Dean

    Holder, Every citizen has the right to vote. They just need to be required to have approprialte identification. Is that too hard to understand, you idiot.

  • Edies fadder

    Holder should be talking from behind bars He should be in prison for fast and furious, among other laws he has broken Holder is just a common criminal

  • Ronnie Powell

    Why would it be so hard to produce ID to vote—doesn't everyone have a SSN? (Except Obama) If you are old enough to vote there is no reason why you wouldn't have a valid ID of some kind unless you're illegal, a felon, underage, non-existant or dead. The demonrats should be embarrassed trying to suppress legal requirements for voting to eliminate fraud. Several military voters didn't get their votes counted last election because they were told they were late. Is Holder going to protect those people who are sacrificing their lives so we can vote? We all know the answer to that one. He knows the military usually votes for conservatives so he'll try to eliminate their votes. Holder should be in prison and impeaching or firing him isn't enough.

  • Ellman

    Holder's comments are related to one thing only: to get Obama re-elected in 2012. He and Obama reap more platitudes than all farmer put together reap corn. Democrats know they are in deep trouble for the 2012 elections and they will literally squeeze out every trick and lie out of their back of tricks and lies to get Obama elected. We haven't seen anything yet from them. The 2012 elections will be littered, like a war field full of dead bodies, with deceit, calumnies, attacks, slander, corruption, voting law violations, intimidation and things no one can even imagine now. The Left does not surrender power with equanimity but with defiance and bitter acrimony. They have already declared war on Republicans and the Tea Party but the war of words will be transformed into a war of actions.

  • Amazedamerican

    Any united states citizen that wants to vote, just has to follow the same rules that everyone else follows. Just because they are black or too lazy to get themselves to the clerk of the court office to register, they think they are being picked on? Well too bad about those lady citizens, maybe they need to get the lead out of their butts and go to work. These people are too used to being spoon fed by the liberal so called leaders. The only thing holder has done for "his people" is to make slaves of them, to work for the ehitehouse plantation.

  • Bill

    Only one word explains this statement of holders is a coo of dictatorship by this administration.

  • Mike

    If; you have to show your drivers license or some other form of picture identification to cash a check at most places, then why is it so terrible to be asked to show picture id in order to vote? I feel that it is more important to vote properly (which means NO voter fraud). Without proper identification anyone can claim to be anyone and vote for whopays them the most in bribes. Picture id can be issued for little or no cost in any state. If you follow the rules then you shoule not have a complaint. It is the ones that complain that must have something to hide.

  • http://yahoo.com Thomas M

    Does this mean we can vote in all fifty seven states eric holder you stupid arse hole murderer fast and furious POS.

  • Sue

    It should be pretty obvious by now that every thing ovomit and that pos holder do is aimed at being a disctraction hoping you will forget about their gun running scheme and all the other illegal things they have done and are doing now. Impeach impeach impeach, and try them both for treason, along with all their phoney cronies.

  • http://www.survivingurbancrisis.com/ SurvivingUrbanCrisis.com

    This is the second attempt to get past the leftist censoring going on here occasionally.
    If you have to show ID to cash a check, buy liquor or cigarettes, or LEGALLY get a drivers license, you can stinkin’ do it when you vote.
    This is just a fight from the left to keep their long term voter fraud machine alive and reelect ‘he who must not be named’. Interesting that the states that went that way last time are also the ones that are fighting the ID laws, huh.
    Interesting that Holder quoted the democrat party hack from GA, cuz GA already has voter ID, and nobody has ever had a problem voting. But it does make voter fraud a lot harder to do. Now you have to jigger the computerized voting system. Oh, wait, that actually makes it easier! D’oh!

    Click the name, see the website, prepare now.

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