For the first time since launching her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton called out some of her likely Republican opponents by name, accusing them of launching a “crusade against voting rights” and for “fear mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud” during a speech where she called for universal automatic voter registration for every citizen at the age of 18.
During Clinton’s remarks at a historically black college in Houston, Texas, she condemned laws that she said suppress voting, particularly among minorities and young people and called out GOP lawmakers for “systemically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting.”
“What is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people, from one end of our country to another,” Clinton said at the Texas South University, where she was receiving an award in honor of the African-American civil rights activist Barbara Jordan. She mentioned laws that limit early voting and require people provide government-issued IDs to vote.
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