Debbie Wasserman Schultz seen nodding in approval.
Via Washington Whispers:
States’ efforts to curve voting fraud have attracted an outcry from Democrats, but Laura Murphy, the Washington Chapter head of the American Civil Liberties Union upped the ante Thursday when she compared recent voter identification laws to poll taxes and Jim Crow-era laws.
“No eligible citizen should have to pay to vote,” Murphy says. “The ACLU believes requiring voters to obtain a government-issued photo ID in order to vote is tantamount to a poll tax.”
Murphy argued during a presentation at the National Press Club that the new laws have been adopted by largely Republican-controlled state houses and target minorities in the same way literacy tests and poll taxes once did.