The Vice President said Tuesday that new voter ID laws in Texas, North Carolina and Texas showed evidence of “hatred” and “zealotry”.
Talking at the Naval Observatory for a Black history Month event, Joe Biden said he was frustrated by the Supreme Court ruling that recently struck down part of the law.
“I thought it was done — finally, finally done,” Biden said.The ruling struck down a provision of the law that required certain jurisdictions with a history of voting suppression to clear any changes in their voting laws with the Justice Department. The court said Congress could update the pre-clearance formula, but lawmakers have been unable to agree on new standards.
Some Southern states have moved aggressively in the interim to impose new, tougher voter ID requirements. Supporters of the legislation, including many Republicans, argue the new standards help prevent voter fraud. But civil rights groups and Democrats have blasted the legislation as an attempt to suppress the vote among poor and minority voters, who are less likely to have government-issued photo identification. They also argue that instances of voter fraud are exceedingly rare.
“These guys never go away. Hatred never, never goes away,” Biden said. “The zealotry of those who wish to limit the franchise cannot be smothered by reason.”
Source: The Hill
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No, they’re based on verifying who’s really eligible to vote to keep him and other liberals from being elected by dead people and cartoon characters.
They should be based upon what the founding fathers of this once great nation intended, when it began as a nation.
No
People must show an ID to rent a car, get treatment through obamacare and many other reasons too numerous to mention. Why not voting. It prevents voter fraud (which is how obama got elected in the first place).
He’s an idiot.
how do they cash their welfare checks without ID ?
This system is what keeps a true and honest election. To be honest, this is really to keep the homeless and degenerates from voting for example the drug addicts or mentally deranged. I love this system and I strongly emphasize it’s purpose to restore the nation of honest individuals. I mean look, more than half that voted for Obama were uneducated, on the welfare system, desperate, or foreign. Voter id is exactly what we need to cleanse our government so people like Obama never get elected in the first place.
DEMOCRAT’S JUST WANNA WIN BY VOTER FRAUD. NEED ID FOR EVERYTHING ELSE.
Biden is a goofbrain
IDIOT !!!!!!