Black Conservatives Say Attorney General Holder’s Tuesday Night Speech at LBJ Library Was Partisan and Racialist

Alan Sexton
Green Mountain Scribes
12/14/2011

“Eric Holder is Putting the Quality of our Electoral Process at Risk” and “the Real Racists… Claim Enforcing Voting ID Laws Hurt Minorities” Say Project 21 Spokesmen. Voter ID “Protects the Voices of Those who Deserve to be Heard”

Washington, D.C.– On the heels of Attorney General Eric Holder’s fiercely political and racially divisive speech Tuesday night, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are criticizing Holder for treating Americans differently based on their race or ethnicity and for his apparent disregard of very real voter fraud threats.

In his speech at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, General Holder made clear the Justice Department is reviewing and expects in some cases to challenge Voter ID and other ballot security measures enacted or under consideration at the state level.

Holder also stepped away from his constitutional role as enforcer of laws enacted by others by promoting new laws to make voter registration automatic, saying, “All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote… It should be the government’s responsibility to automatically register citizens to vote.”…

…Holder cited allegations of vote suppression based on race, language and even immigration status, but dismissively referred to false-identity voter fraud as “uncommon.”

But with clear examples of voting irregularities, including a recent 50-year sentence for a Mississippi NAACP official who illegally cast absentee ballots, allegations of a sweetheart settlement at Holder’s own Justice Department for members of the New Black Panther Party, a Green Party gubernatorial candidate’s name being listed falsely as “Rich Whitey” on 500 Chicago voting machines (about half in majority black districts), Project 21 members worry that Holder’s attitude may give political fixers an effective green light for certain kinds of voter fraud…

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Related: Wisconsin faces lawsuit as civil rights groups cry foul over new voting rules; ACLU accuses state of trying to disenfranchise black people, the poor and elderly by requiring photo ID before they can vote.

A tough new law in the state of Wisconsin requiring voters to carry photo ID before they can cast their ballot is being challenged in a federal lawsuit that claims thousands of poor, black and elderly people could be disenfranchised. At the same time the American attorney general, Eric holder, has given a strong speech promising to defend the rights of previously marginalised voters.

The legal action, lodged in the federal court for the eastern district of Wisconsin, opens a new front in the battle over voter registration before next year’s presidential election. Civil rights groups are warning that a wave of legislative restrictions introduced in more than 30 states amounts to a concerted attack on voting rights in America on a level not seen since the days of segregation.

The lawsuit has been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, and other state officials. It is the only active federal challenge to the imposition of ID laws on voters…

Update: New Haven, CT Mayor DeStefano Wants Ilegals to Have the Right to Vote

Update 2Connecticut GOP Blasts Non-Citizen Voting Proposal as ‘Publicity Stunt’

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