Think Progress: Sixteen Senators Ask DOJ To Investigate Potentially Illegal State Voter Disenfranchisement Laws
-By Ian Millhiser
July 9, 2011- Sixteen senators led by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) submitted a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week asking him to examine whether the Voting Rights Act’s prohibitions on laws preventing minorities from voting invalidate so-called “voter ID” laws, which effectively disenfranchise thousands of elderly, disabled, and low-income voters: