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Bill Maher shuts down Eric Holder over GOP voter rights bills, says black turnout went up in Georgia

June 5, 2022 | | Print Article

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher shut down an attempt by Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder to argue that voter ID laws are designed to suppress the black vote.

Appearing on Maher’s weekly HBO program this Friday, Holder ranted about how Republicans have allegedly “gutted” the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by instituting commonsense voter integrity rules like a requirement for voter ID.

“A whole bunch of unnecessary things to keep African Americans, young people, Hispanics, people perceived as Democrats away from the polls have been put in place” by Republican lawmakers on the local and state level, he claimed.

Maher promptly pushed back.

“But photo IDs are popular even among African Americans. Something like three quarters of whites and I think 69 percent of black folks say, yeah, we should have photo ID. So why is that an issue?” the liberal TV host correctly noted.

Indeed, multiple polls have shown strong support for voter ID among the black community:

Holder responded by playing semantics.

“Well you see, I’m for voter ID as opposed to photo ID,” he said, as if there’s a difference.

“No, we’re talking about photo ID to prove you should vote,” Maher countered.

Holder responded by providing an example of what he meant.

“Here’s the deal. What they’ve done, like in Texas, they said you have to have photo ID. If you have a photo ID issued by the state of Texas that says that you can carry a concealed weapon, that’s cool. If you have a state-issued photo ID that says you’re a student at the University of Texas, not cool. And so you can see how they’re trying to fool around with it,” he said.

But there’s a reason voter ID laws sometimes require a state-level ID versus just a school ID: Because sometimes school IDs lack an expiration date.

Starting in 2019, for instance, Iowa stopped accepting student IDs from the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, and Iowa State University because of a lack of an expiration date.

“[B]ecause these schools’ student cards don’t have expiration dates, poll workers won’t accept them as IDs as required identification to cast ballots. That requirement will begin in 2019,” The Daily Iowan reported in late 2018.

Plus, sometimes school register illegal aliens as students.

Later during the discussion between Holder and Maher, the host drew attention to Georgia’s controversial voting law passed earlier this year and noted how President Joe Biden had referred to it as “Jim Crow 2.0.”

However, he continued, despite so-called “Jim Crow 2.0” being in effect, black turnout wound up being through the roof during Georgia’s primary elections last month.

“But Georgia just had an election and the vote went up, including among African-Americans. How do you square that?” Maher said.

He was correct.

“Georgia held its first primary on Tuesday under its new election law — and saw record turnout. Far from suppressing the vote, early voting came in at nearly triple Georgia’s 2018 level,” The Washington Post reported on May 27th.

“Four years ago, just 299,347 cast early in-person ballots in the midterm primaries. This year, 857,401 Georgians cast in-person or absentee ballots during the state’s three-week early-voting period, according to the secretary of state’s office. That is 212 percent more than in 2020 — a presidential election year, which usually boosts turnout — when just 326,351 people cast early ballots.”

One 70-year-old black retiree, Patsy Reid, told the Post that she was surprised that, in contradiction to what Democrats had told her, she wound up encountering no problems while at the polling booth.

“I had heard that they were going to try to deter us in any way possible. To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was really thrown back,” she said.

Holder responded to Maher’s point by claiming that the black community overcame the alleged “Jim Crow 2.0.”

“That’s a testament to the fact that black folks have said no matter what impediments you put in front of us, we’re going to the polls. And that’s what they did,” he said.

“Throughout history, black Americans have risked life, limb, done everything they possibly can to get access to the ballot. And the fact that you had a turnout that was higher than perhaps what you’ve seen before is not an indication that those provisions that they put into law were necessarily good ones.”

Apparently, if black voters fail to turn out in droves, that proves GOP voter suppression, But if voters do turn out in droves, that too proves GOP voter suppression?

Make that make sense …

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26 thoughts on “Bill Maher shuts down Eric Holder over GOP voter rights bills, says black turnout went up in Georgia”

  1. “That’s a testament to the fact that black folks have said no matter what impediments you put in front of us, we’re going to the polls. And that’s what they did,” he said. So these efforts “energized the base” of the Democrat Party and they STILL aren’t happy? Who would have thunk?

  2. Holder is a crook, mr fast and furious. All Dems do is insult blacks and treat them like second class citizens unable to perform basic tasks. Why on earth does any black support people who claim you aren’t smart purely because of your race. Sickening to listen too.

  4. What a bunch of gibberish. Demoncrats just can’t tell the truth. He knows their narrative about voter suppression was proven wrong. Don’t believe the facts people, Republicans are taking away your right to vote. Hogwash. Republicans are just making it harder for demoncrats to cheat. To them, that’s not fair.

  5. I guess holder the assshhhh#$& forgot about the black criminals with baseball bats standing and not allowing whites and Republicans enter the voting hall in Philly.

  6. “I had heard that they were going to try to deter us in any way possible. To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was really thrown back,” she said.Guess what ma’am, you just experienced what we’ve been telling you for years! Democrats are Communist liars! Are you ready to leave the plantation?

  7. As our moron in chief stated, Democrats value truth over facts. And they demand to be the arbiters of truth.

  8. The President
    The Senate.
    The Congress
    All have betrayed their oath under Title 6 of the United States Constitution. Most of the Federal Agencies ordained by Congress are ILLEGAL! Any America, in any State, can with evidence arrest a Senator or Congressman for felony, treason, breaching the peace.
    A President does NOT have Constitutional Authority to suspend commerce nor seizures of markets! A President does NOT have authority to enact foreign trade under Article 2 of the Executive and Congress under Article 1, nor Senate in Article 3 cannot usurp this power to the Executive branch! YOUR ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTING TREASON!
    Furthermore, Bitcoin? Did Congress authorize “Bitcoin” as “legal tender” before allowing it to be traded as a “currency” or advertised as “replacement currency”? This is treason!
    Foreign National Invasion at our borders? The congress can only fund military campaigns for 2 years! Homeland Insecurity? TSA? Patriot Act? Not worth the ink they’re printed on.
    Contact your State Governor’s office and DEMAND a State tribunal under oath to question your State elected Federal Representatives regarding seditious conspiracy, felonies, breaching peace, dishonor by oath, and have trial coverage on live tv and internet stream. If Representatives are found guilty? Arrest them on the spot! Read your Constitution!

  10. If you are Mr. Holder, that trusted ally of Mr. Obama you don’t have to make sense. You only have to follow the leader and say “racist”. That’s been the magic word since 2008. We have finally realized that the real racists were in the White House.

  11. No one should be fooled by Maher`s recent criticisms of a few dems and a few of their insane policies, as, he has clearly stated that he identifies as a leftist dem. He must be losing dem viewers, hence his attempts to win over some conservatives.

    1. Exactly!
      Maher is a Communist jew and enemy of the Republic! He promotes Communism until he’s against it. A snakes tongue.

  12. Holder and the Democrats are terrified that they may lose ownership of black people as they realize they can think for themselves and do not have to be Democrats’ slaves and can do what is best for themselves.

  13. Holder, like all Democrat Party former or current officials, is a compulsive fabricator. Consider he makes note that if you are a Texas concealed carry permit holder, you can vote but if you have a student ID for the University of Texas that isn’t sufficient. The requirement to vote in Texas, like every other State, is you must be a resident. Same with the concealed carry permit. Texas grants reciprocity to many other State concealed carry holders with respect to carrying a concealed weapon – but they don’t get to vote here. A large number of UT students are not Texas residents. If they are, they’ll have a Texas Driver’s license or a Texas voter registration card with an easily acquired photo ID. Too bad our TV guy missed Holder’s blatant deceptive pitch. Holder and the Democrats operate the largest voter fraud operation North of Venezuela.

  14. Actually, it does not ban people from handing out “food and water”. It bans election/poll workers from doing so, to prevent electioneering. Or, you know, you could bring your own if it’s such a concern.

  16. Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder doesn’t if what he says is even close to being accurate and/or the truth, he’s a democrat. He parrots the democrat playbook of spin, inaccuracies and outright lies!!

    1. See my post above. You have to be a resident of Texas to vote here. You don’t have to be a resident to go to school and get a student ID from UT. Yes, Holder is a lying skunk.

  17. Holder was a lying POS when he was part of Bathhouse Barry’s administration, and he’s still a lying POS.

    F him and mother F the entire dim party.

  18. Dem talking heads will continue to claim pro-Trump means White Supremacists, voter ID means voter suppression (yeah, it does suppress illegal votes, doesn’t it!), backing the 2nd Amendment makes us child killers, yet abortion isn’t, everything to demonize the right when they are the ones who fought for slavery, voted against Black and women’s rights, make police helpless or non-existent except in protecting them…..

  19. Eric Holder should have been on Ron Brown’s plane. The purpose of “early voting”, mail in ballots, drop boxes, ect. is to fraudulently thwart the democratic will of the people to self govern.

  21. Holder is not really a good liar! We know he doesn’t want actual “Identification” for voting. He’s lying when he says “Oh, I’m for ID just not PHOTO ID”! WHY? The real reason is that “photo ID” is more likely to be accurate. Other ID is easily and fraudulently manufactured by voting fraud organizations. And in reality Holder is all for that. He wants illegals with any form of ID that doesn’t display a photo or the birth place of the person involved. We are one of the only countries that doesn’t expect one day voting as well.

  22. Without the verification of a certified voter photo I.D. the door for fraudulent voting will be as wide open as our borders are . They sure dont like push back do they. Eric Hold on is as corrupt as they come. Pure trash and compulsive liar.

  23. Holder is just another incompetent, black politician who has absolutely no business being in politics, Obama’s yes man who’ll kiss anybody’s ass if it will bolster his agenda. Complete waste of human life.

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