It's hard to believe that some conservatives are planning to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but here we are.
According to recently resurfaced writings and interviews, RFK Jr. has been a lifelong opponent of voter ID requirements.
On the same page, Kennedy described voter ID laws as "Racially rancid," citing thousands of voters rejected at the polls for having an expired license - or no license at all - during an unnamed previous election being "Disproportionately" Black.
Kennedy wrote on another page that an Idaho requirement for newly registered voters in the state to show ID to have a mail-in ballot counted was "a new voter Block-the-Vote trick." He later described voter ID laws as "The newest scam to steal your vote," and specifically called those turned away from the polls for not being able to prove their identity as "Stolen votes." "Voter fraud is non-existent everybody who has ever studied this - non-partisan, bi-partisan groups - [has] said that it is simply not a problem in this country," Kennedy also wrote in the comic.
In a 2008 interview with HuffPost, Kennedy claimed that voter fraud "Doesn't exist" and compared voter ID laws to Jim Crow laws.
"Republicans have seized on this in order to erect all kinds of obstacles and impediments that essentially mimic the old poll taxes that were used in the southern states during the Jim Crow period, to keep black people from voting. Today, they're directed toward suppressing the votes, not only blacks, but Hispanics and American Indians, of young people of senior citizens," he said in the interview.
"One in five black voters does not have a driver's license. That means if you require a driver's license, you're getting rid of 20% of the black voters in this country," he claimed.
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