(Bill) Clinton rips Georgia's voter ID bill [View All]

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Clinton rips Georgia's voter ID bill

ATLANTA — With his recent heart surgery as a reference point, former President Bill Clinton spent most of a session with black journalists Wednesday talking about health care issues. But first, he had some choice words about Georgia's new voter ID bill.

"All over America there are efforts to restrict access to the vote under the guise of preventing voter fraud. And I say guise — look at this Georgia bill, all the ID you've got to produce to register to vote," Clinton said at the opening session of the National Association of Black Journalists convention at the downtown Hyatt Regency hotel.

Clinton also called on Congress and the Bush administration to support continuation of those portions of the Voting Rights Act that will otherwise expire in 2007, and said he thought voting rights should be extended to those who have been convicted of a crime and served their sentence.

Clinton also dealt with a question about the presidential ambitions of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). She would be "the best there ever was" if she became president, but he didn't know if his wife will run, Clinton said.

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