Scarborough: Racist Claims About Voter ID Laws "Outrageous"
SCARBOROUGH: Okay. So Mike Allen, let me ask you this. I'm curious. Because I keep reading these stories and I hear these fiery condemnations of these laws across the country. In North Carolina, in Texas, are they just asking people to have a picture I.D.? Or are they, what, doing like, like poll tests? Are they making -- what else are they asking them to do other than have a picture I.D. at the polling booth.
ALLEN: The Texas law is restrictive as far as what types of federal I.D.s you can use. And the administration with these laws is saying that states shouldn't rush to try to take advantage of that supreme court decision that they --
SCARBOROUGH: Not cross examining you here, I've been reading this and the new stories on it and makes it sound like we're going back to Jim Crow laws, there are going to be white people with bull whips whipping black people if they come to vote and Bull Conner is there ready to release German Shepards. Again I ask innocently, does North Carolina or Texas require anything more than a picture I.D. that when somebody shows up to vote, that the person has a picture I.D. with them, that proves they are who they say they are? Anything else? Anything else?
ALLEN: Joe, you're getting at the real question here. What is the intent behind these laws?
SCARBOROUGH: No. My question -- that's not my question. I want somebody to tell me. Is -- are we, when the attorney general -- I'm not being cute here. I'm reading all of these stories that talk about basically you're putting a white hood over the governor of North Carolina, putting a white hood over the entire Texas legislature, most Americans would think it's not racist to ask somebody to just have a picture I.D. when they show up at the voting booth. But you read "the New York Times" and you read these other media outlets that again make politicians in North Carolina and Texas sound racist for just saying hey, you're going to need a picture I.D. to prove you are who you are. I ask, Mike, Willie, Richard Haas, anybody, is there anything else in these laws other than a demand that somebody have a picture I.D. when they show up to vote?
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