What's your take on the voter ID laws?

By Alex Veeneman on June 4, 2012


Attorney General Eric Holder at a Department of Justice Press Briefing.
(Photo courtesy of the federal government)

Attorney General Eric Holder has criticized voter ID laws carried in 31 of the 50 states, creating a possible turning away of voters on Election Day.

“If a state passes a new voting law and meets its burden of showing that the law is not discriminatory, we will follow the law and will approve that change,” Holder said in a speech according to NPR. “When a jurisdiction fails to meet its burden in proving that a voting change will not have a racially discriminatory effect, we will object, as we have in 15 different cases.”

What do you think about these laws? How do you think they will effect the election?

Join in the conversation. Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

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