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.”
She added that women, particularly married women, are also negatively affected because their passport may “reflect something that’s different on your birth certificate or on your driver’s license.”
