The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted Friday to condemn all state voter identification laws as racially discriminatory.
The commission passed the motion by a 4-2 vote, with one recusal, at its August meeting in Washington. The statement characterizes all state voter ID laws as “thinly veiled efforts to deny racial minorities access to the ballot box.”
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