Joltin’ Joe wouldn’t know voter suppression if it was a brick hitting him in the face.

Via The Hill:

Vice President Biden calls on Democrats to “stand up and fight back” against efforts to impose new voter identification requirements in a video for the Democratic National Committee posted Monday.

“I’ve got to tell you, if someone had told me 10 years ago I’d have to make a pitch for protecting voting rights today, I would have said, ‘you’ve got to be kidding,’ ” Biden said.

Biden said that voting access issues had seemed settled, and cited instances of former President Reagan or former Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) backing voting rights legislation.

“I thought at that time the only debate we’d be having now is how to continue to expand the voting franchise,” Biden said. “But last year, when the Supreme Court cut the heart out of the Voting Rights Act, it opened up the floodgates to voter-suppression efforts nationwide.”

“We have to stand up,” Biden continued. “It’s time to stand up and fight back.”