During a speech to the NAACP on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder compared voter id laws (this particular law he was referring to is a voter id law in Texas) to Jim Crow-era laws and acts which were intended to suppress the African-American vote:
“Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not. Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. We call those poll taxes.”
