Via AFP:
President Barack Obama warned Friday that Republicans were suppressing the right of African Americans to vote in a way not seen in 50 years.
In unusually sharp language, the president accused his political opponents of using the threat of voter fraud as a ruse to deprive Americans of a fundamental right.
"The stark, simple truth is this," Obama said at the annual convention of the National Action Network, a civil rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton, a prominent community leader.
"The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting...
