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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Now, the Obama Justice Department weighs in on the debate over new voting laws. We begin with some background.
Millions of potential voters may not be able to cast votes in 2012, after a dozen states put new restrictions in place this year. Six states passed laws that limit early voting. And eight states will now require voters to present state-issued photo identification cards in order to cast a ballot. Previously, only Indiana and Georgia had strict photo I.D. requirements.
The Obama Justice Department is now objecting to the new laws. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke last night in Austin, Texas, at the Presidential Library of Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.
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