Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General under the Obama administration and current Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, spoke in support of Shomari Figures at Mobile’s Big Zion AME Church on Monday evening.
Holder’s visit comes just a few short days before residents of Alabama’s newly-redrawn 2nd Congressional District head to the voting booth to decide who will represent them in Congress. Figures, a former top aide to Attorney General Merrick Garland, is running against Republican Caroleene Dobson for the office.
“That’s not that hard,” said Holder. “They’re not going to be people out there with billy clubs and fire hoses and dogs, you know, trying to prevent you from voting or registering, go through all that stuff.”
He made clear that he was against mandating photo IDs for elections and also disputed claims of voter fraud.
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