Sunny Hostin says voter ID laws is 'vestige of post-slavery laws,' will negatively affect women

On a recent episode of “Behind the Table,” the official podcast of “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin criticized voter ID laws, claiming they disproportionately harm black Americans and women.

Hostin’s comments came following a discussion on The View with guest Elie Mystal. Mystal, who wrote the book “Bad Law,” suggested that the US should eliminate voter registration laws.

"The reason Democrats don’t want voter ID is because they make it much more difficult for elderly people, people who don’t travel… poor people don’t have cars, don’t have driver’s licenses,” Hostin claimed. “It’s sort of a vestige, I think, of post-slavery laws where black people had to prove their right to vote, and oftentimes they couldn’t vote because they couldn’t pass some crazy test.”
 

Sunny Hostin on voter ID laws: “It’s sort of a vestige of, I think, post-slavery laws where black people had to prove their right to vote and oftentimes they couldn’t vote because they couldn’t pass some crazy test.”

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