Vice President Biden decries 'hatred' behind state voter ID laws

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he hopes Congress will pass new legislation to modernize the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and counter what he called the "hatred" behind voter identification laws in states such as North Carolina, Alabama and Texas.

The U.S. Supreme Court gutted a core part of the act in June, and said Congress needed a new plan to protect blacks and other minorities in places where discrimination still persists rather than target former slaveholding states in the South.

At a reception at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., in honor of African-American History Month, Biden criticized voting rules in North Carolina, Alabama and Texas.

"These guys never go away. Hatred never, never goes away," Biden told the reception. "The zealotry of those who wish to limit the franchise cannot be smothered by reason."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/us-usa-biden-votingrights-idUSBREA1P06120140226

[riversedge]

1. Thanks for keeping this issue in the forefront.

[reddread]

2. joined at the hips with Clarence Thomas' confirmation

stuck it to us all pretty good.

[jwirr]

3. Hatred and a false sense of superiority.