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Obama Wants Voter-Rights Official Sacked

Said voter ID laws don't hurt minorities; they 'don't become elderly'

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 20, 2007 7:52 AM CDT

(Newser) – Barack Obama wrote to the Justice Department asking for the dismissal of John Tanner, the head of its voting rights division, in the wake of Tanner's assertions that voter ID laws primarily hurt old white people, because "minorities don't become elderly the way white...   Read full story »

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