Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t hold back on his contempt for voter identification measures in an MSNBC interview Thursday, referring to them as a Republican attempt to depress the votes of people who don’t support them politically.
While Republicans see voter ID as a way to prevent voter fraud, Holder dismissed that notion during the interview, saying that voter fraud does not exist to any extent that should require identification.
“I think we’ve come up with a remedy in search of a problem,” Holder told MSNBC. “And I think it’s being used in too many instances to depress the vote of particular groups of people who are not supportive of the party that is advancing these photo ID measures.”
Holder made it clear that he is not opposed to all identification entirely, but he is opposed to any sort of identification used to disenfranchise particular groups of people.
“People have to understand that we are not opposed to photo identification in a vacuum,” Holder said. “But when it is used in certain ways to disenfranchise particular groups of people whether by racial designation, ethic origin or partisan reasons, that from my perspective is problematic.”
Just last year, Holder took the state of Texas to federal court insisting that the state acquire “pre-approval” from either the Department of Justice or a federal court before implementing any future changes in voting laws. The Attorney General cited “evidence of intentional racial discrimination” along with a ”history of pervasive voting-related discrimination against racial minorities.”
Not long after taking Texas to court, Holder filed suit against the state of North Carolina for the same reason.
Even though Holder doesn’t see voter fraud as an issue, the numbers prove otherwise.
According to True the Vote, there are more than 24 million invalid voter registrations on the books along with 1.8 million dead voters who are still eligible on the rolls. On top of that, federal records showed 160 counties in 19 states have more than 100 percent voter registration.
Holder thinks Republicans want to use voter ID for their own gain
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