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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Civil rights panel calls all voter ID laws discriminatory

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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted Friday to condemn all state voter identification laws as racially discriminatory.  The commission passed the motion by a 4-2 vote, with one recusal, at its August meeting in Washington. The statement characterizes all state voter ID laws as "thinly veiled efforts to deny racial minorities access to the ballot box.  Commissioner Gail Heriot objected to the "tone" of the letter and voted against it, argued that the commission shouldn't make blanket judgments and such laws should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis......To Read More....

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