Page 5 - Voting Id News Today

Included the formula. if you thought it was 50-year-old data and a bad formula, why vote for it? >> i didnt want to throw out the whole bill. at the time we decided to continue it because a lot of it is good. >> but the point is -- to get back to the point, its not 50-year-old data. were talking about what goes on now. the voting i.d. laws, manifestly unjust, and the way racial je y gerrymandering as occurred in texas and florida and south carolina. were not talking about having the ghost of mis...

But i think it was a good judgment. and its not going to hinder voting rights. >> in 2006, the formula wasnt on 50-year-old data. if you thought it was 50-year-old data, and a bad idea -- >> i would vote either i would throw the whole thing out or accept it. we just decided to continue it because a lot of it is good. >> but the point is, its not -- to get back to the point, were talking about what goes on now. the voting i.d. laws were unjust and the ways in which the gerrymandering that has occ...

African-americans, latinos, people of color are going to be more vulnerable to the m matinations trying to fence them out of the voting process, whether were talking about moving polling stations, voting i.d. laws, all the things we saw happen in florida a few years back. i think theyre not going -- we know that if section 5 is struck down, theyre not going to have the kind of protections weve had since 1965. one other thing very important is that were not talking about a formula that wasnt revi...

And did have a recording device, but the republican guy missed it. he did not do the patdown well enough to find the wire and the fbi agent just kept recording. what would have happened if he had found the wire? so thats part one of todays news that leaves you feeling like you want to shower in bleach. part two involves this guy. governor ultrasound. we hardly knew you. in a political context, governor bob mcdonald is known for trying to portray a moderate image. thats how he got the nickname. o...

And did have a recording device, but the republican guy missed it. he did not do the patdown well enough to find the wire and the fbi agent just kept recording. what would have happened if he had found the wire? so thats part one of todays news that leaves you feeling like you want to shower in bleach. part two involves this guy. governor ultrasound. we hardly knew you. in a political context, governor bob mcdonald is known for trying to portray a moderate image. thats how he got the nickname. o...

It. he did not do the patdown well enough to find the wire and the fbi agent just kept recording. what would have happened if he had found the wire? so thats part one of todays news that leaves you feeling like you want to shower in bleach. part two involves this guy. governor ultrasound. we hardly knew you. in a political context, governor bob mcdonald is known for trying to portray a moderate image. thats how he got the nickname. on his way out of office, he is pushing more antiabortion legisl...

Discrimination persists in covered jurisdictions. a "the washington post" editorial says protecting the right to vote is of such importance that congress should have the authority to use strong measures to protect it. how do you predict the arguments will go today? >> it is going to be tough because over the last 30 years weve looked at the record of supreme court justice roberts and his track record on this issue. he has been a person who has been against the voting rights act. he wrote several...

Republican senators and congress people in the north. so the party sort of switched sides. now you have north and south republican governors, not democratic governors, republican state legislators working hard to disenfranchise black voters but also sort of the obama coalition. so not only african-americans, but latinos, younger voters, poorer voters, and in states like florida where older people vote democratic, you know, older people, too. its really a pervasive and pernicious new crusade. >> ...

State legislators working hard to disenfranchise black voters but also sort of the obama coalition. so not only african-americans, but latinos, younger voters, poorer voters, and in states like florida where older people vote democratic, you know, older people, too. its really a pervasive and pernicious new crusade. >> joan, to make your point, here is mike turzai, the republican leader in pennsylvania, admitting basically that the reason theyre making the laws tougher setting up the voting i.d....

Republican governors, not democratic governors, republican state legislators working hard to disenfranchise black voters but also sort of the obama coalition. so not only african-americans, but latinos, younger voters, poorer voters, and in states like florida where older people vote democratic, you know, older people, too. its really a pervasive and pernicious new crusade. >> joan, to make your point, here is mike turzai, the republican leader in pennsylvania admitting basically that the reason...