calling for that compared with 8% of white citizens. do you still consider the attorney general and president as wrong to tell hispanic voters that perhaps their voting rights could be in jeopardy? the figures don t dispute what we have seen happen on election day. the question here is do these laws depress black voter tornout and there is no evidence that they do. kelly: jason let s go back to the voting rights act and language. do you know what the voting rights act of 1965 actually called for. in. the voting rights act of 1965 was about access to the ballot. that was the original intent of the voting rights act. kelly: let me read a little bit for you. the act is considered a landmark in civil rights legislation though some provisions have sparked poe let cal controversy and during the debate over the 2006 extension some republican members of congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement.
he is going around the country essentially saying that the laws are a racist republican plot to disenfranchise black voters but there is absolutely no evidence to support those claims. kelly: that is a mouthful of information that you put out there right now. and you state that team obama is in a desperate situation and given the poor job numbers and unemployment rate going up to 8.2% it is clear that president obama is in poe let cal trouble and it is clearly about the economy but you launched an argument that it is also about race. why would you accuse the president or the attorney general of playing the race card here? first of all, on the evidence or i should say the lack of evidence of what he is saying. where voter i.d. laws have been put in place in places like georgia and indiana black voter turnout actually increased not decreased. the idea that the laws depress black voter turnout simply is not borne by the facts. what is going on here and this is why i think the accusati