Todd Akins (R) Missouri Validates GOP Strategy of Suppressing Votes
Republican Congressman Todd Akin said Friday afternoon he thinks its time for a second look at federal civil rights and voting rights laws.
The republican U.S. senate candidate told FOX 2s Charles Jaco states not the federal government should set voter rules.
Congressman Akin of course is trying to unseat democratic Senator Claire McCaskill. And Akin has always said the federal governments role should be much smaller than it is.
But Akin says that federal voting rights laws may need to be looked at, changed or overturned is something new. Those laws were passed in 1964, 1965 and 1968. The voting rights act of 1965 prevented mostly southern states from using things like literacy tests to keep African-Americans from voting. The civil rights act of 1964 outlawed similar voting restrictions.
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