Bill Clinton Likens Proposed Voting Laws In Florida, NH To Jim Crow
"There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the voter Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit a franchise that we see today," Former President Bill Clinton said at Campus Progress conference in Washington, D.C.
Jim Crow laws, enacted after the Civil War until the mid-1960s, suppressed the black vote because it required them to take literacy tests and pay poll taxes in order to vote.
Clinton also pandered to minority communities who have "paid their price" already:
"Why should we disenfranchise people forever once they've paid their price?" Clinton asked. "Because most of them in Florida were African Americans and Hispanics and would tend to vote for Democrats, that's why."
Clinton was referring to a proposed law in New Hampshire that would not allow college students from registering in that state, where they attend school, instead of their home state.
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