Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111210:12:40:00
In place 50 years before that. those laws like the poll tax and the literacy test and the grandfather clause, this is the new fang ld version of that. when you give somebody a voter i.d. requirement and that person was born into the hands of a midwife who may not have been sure they got a birth certificate, it can be a legal nightmare that takes years for them to be able to register to vote. when you are in a state like wisconsin where black and brown folks are hugely disproportionately poor, three-quarters of young black men don't have a valid i.d. for two reasons. one, they are too poor to o...