What Democrats Say When Ted Cruz Asks Whether Voter ID Is Racist

IS VOTER ID RACIST?

No. @HVonSpakovsky explains that EVERY STATE requiring ID to vote offers a FREE ID to keep it easy to vote—and turnout numbers show it has NO “suppressive” effect. pic.twitter.com/Pc9FUDQECw

— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) September 22, 2021

Voter ID laws are racist in Texas and could be in other states as well, depending on intent, three Democrat witnesses said Wednesday at a Senate hearing.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, later responded “no” to Cruz’s question about whether voter ID laws are racist. (The Heritage Foundation is the parent organization of The Daily Signal.)

Von Spakovsky specifically noted that the Obama administration’s Justice Department approved the Texas law.

“Particularly because every single state that has passed an ID law has put in a provision to provide a free ID to anyone who doesn’t have one,” von Spakovsky said, adding:

I would remind everyone that [as for] the current version of the Texas voter ID law for its in-person voting, the Obama administration agreed in court, in a court filing, that they were satisfied with it and it was not discriminatory.

Currently, 35 states have voter ID laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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