Todd Akin also said this: The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Should Be Overturned

[warrior1]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/17/710101/gop-senate-candidate-suggests-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965-should-be-overturned/

Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, suggested in an interview that it was time to “look at or overturn” the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Asked directly if seminal federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discriminatory voting proceedures needed to be modified or scrapped, Akin said that states — not the federal government — should set voting rules. According to Akin, elections “have historically always been a state thing” and that’s a “good principle.”

[Skidmore]

1. As my beloved husband is wont to say,

"All the man needs is a tail to be a pig." I do believe we have a tailless pig here.

[jsr]

2. It's time to bring back the poll tax

and keep the peasants in their place.

[still_one]

3. Now we know who the tea party really is, george wallace reincarnations /nt

[yardwork]

4. Anybody who votes for this man should be deeply ashamed.

[YoungDemCA]

5. WTF is wrong with this guy?

Who thinks this way?

This can't be a real person....

[treestar]

6. All of that has already been decided

The federal government protects federal rights where states refuse to do so. That's why those acts had to pass. Moron.

[RC]

7. Federal Elections need Federal rules and laws.

That will slow down, if not stop the election frauds in places like Ohio and Florida.

Spell check: 'moron' is 'moran'

This is DU and we pride ourselves on our spelling.

[treestar]

8. lol

thanks you internet spelling nazi!

[starroute]

9. Akin was also pushing the "voter fraud" meme as far back as 2002

I just posted this on another thread as evidence that Akin may have ties to Karl Rove going back that far. But I think it belongs here as well.

The backstory in brief is that during the 2000 election, the GOP in Missouri was making a lot of noise about alleged Democratic voter fraud, and Akin soon become one of the people promoting those claims.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080301210129/http://www.house.gov/akin/updates/20020312.html

March 12, 2002

Voting: Secret, not anonymous
Todd Akin

Recently, a controversial vote was taken in the Senate that could have killed the federal election reform bill. The debate centered on Sen. Christopher S. Bond's insistence that federal election reform include modest protections against voter fraud. The November 2000 elections in Missouri brought the issue of widespread voter fraud to the attention of the public.

I testified before a commission established by Secretary of State Matt Blunt that duplicate voter registrations and lax voter registration procedures contributed to serious abuses. The secretary's report issued last July concurred. It established that at least 1,384 votes had been illegally cast during the election of November 2000, and it called for reform.

In the Senate, Bond thought he had securred an agreement on the election reform bill that would go a long way toward deterring the type of voter fraud that Blunt's report outlined. The bipartisan agreement required voters who register or vote by mail to provide some proof of residency, such as a photocopy of a driver's license, utility bill, phone bill or tax bill. All sides agreed that this requirement was a reasonable and necessary step in preventing voter fraud.