Saturday 14 July 2012

Texas' poll tax in disguise

A law requiring a photo ID to vote attacks a key achievement of the civil rights era.

In 1964, the American people enacted the 24th Amendment, to prevent the exclusion of the poor from the ballot box. In his speech last week at the NAACP convention, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. wasn't indulging in election-year rhetoric when he condemned Texas' 2011 voter photo identification law as a poll tax that could do just that. He was speaking the hard legal truth.


Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/latimes/news/opinion/commentary/~3/6NSpZxPSwkk/la-oe-ackerman-texas-poll-tax-20120715,0,6684651.story

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