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as you know the Republican Supreme Court
a republican-dominated Supreme Court I
guided the Voting Rights Act couple weeks ago
in now some in what some have described
is analogous to deciding that
we had a bad intersection where accidents were happening we put up
I am a stoplights and the
motion-activated cameras to catch license plate numbers that
come through in don't stop and since we have now gotten rid of all the traffic
accidents there
we should get rid of those things and as soon as
I the voting rights act was struck down we had a half a dozen states across the
country
wrapping up in reinstituting their
voting I laws which were designed
to suppress the vote I love
generally minorities more generally
democrats but but to a large extent minorities
and there is now a
a a trial in pennsylvania
over the constitutionality of the state's voter identification law
a the the state constitutionality of the state's voter identification law
the other day I am two days ago
Bernard Siskin a statistical expert who is been
a a consultant for a variety of government agencies and companies
cluding the FBI testified that about $511
thousand registered voters in Pennsylvania lack
the state issue ID's required at the polls
under the law he also said the law disproportionately affects democrats
a.m. members of minority groups
they are three times as likely as Republicans
democrats are and minorities about twice as likely as whites to lack
the valid ID needed this is relevant because
%uh the state's constitution is a
would prohibit a law that disenfranchise is large number of voters
on top of that just if you wanted to know
the agenda behind this we already know that a Pennsylvania a state lawmaker
back in the day said the Pennsylvania was gonna go to my I go to
Mitt Romney because we were able to pass voter ID law
we now have a republican representative
after the election bragging about
this fact in regards to a question
about voter ID listen to it now
your
do you think all the attention drawn to voter ID effective last year's elections
oh yeah I think a little bit I think great we probably had a better election
think about this we kinda Obama by five percent
which was big a lot of people I cited that he
he won EP McCain by 10 percent nearly beat
on the by five percent I think that probably for a second stop this
play it again listen to the question your
do you think all the attention drawn to voter ID effective last year's elections
%uh yeah I think a little bit I think they
we probably had a better election think about this we kinda Obama by five
percent
which was big a lot of people I cited he
he won EP McCain by 10 percent nearly beat
on the by five percent I think that probably photo ID head up
helped a bit in that so the question is do you think that all the attention
about your attempts to suppress voting in pennsylvania
drove up the rate of participation
and he did not he doesn't even hear the question
all he does is say he thinks he's in some type %uh
you know meeting with donors nah voter ID was successful for us we were able to
cut
Obama's margin and he was right in now
n in now 008 Obama won by 10 points
in five points in 2012 in pennsylvania
so he was right they were able
to keep people away from the polls
not the response you'd expect well what we really did in what was more important
is that we
maintain the integrity of our election because of our *** talking points
about %uh but this is supposed to be prevented
this is just grotesque it's grotesque
in fact I don't know how this isn't admitted to this court case
the next day they even admit that it suppressed for a voter turnout
unbelievable really I'm believed