NAACP takes U.S. voter ID issues to the UN

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27. Eric Holder on what is happening right this minute in America

Congress renewed the Voting Rights Act in 2006 for another 25 years, prompting multiple lawsuits by those who believe local and state governments in the South should no longer be punished for past sins of discrimination against minority voters.

Holder, in prepared remarks to the National Conference of Black Churches Annual Consultation in Washington D.C., disputed that view.

"Each of these challenges to Section 5 claims that we've attained a new era of electoral equality, that America in 2012 has moved beyond the challenges of 1965, and that Section 5 is no longer necessary," Holder said in remarks provided by the DOJ. "I wish this were the case. But the reality is that, in jurisdictions across the country, both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common - and have not yet been relegated to the pages of history."

http://blog.al.com/sweethome/2012/05/us_attorney_general_eric_holde.html