John Oliver Illuminates the Problems With “Common Sense” Voter ID Laws

"It's just one of those things a white person is more likely to have, like a sunburn ... or an Oscar nomination."

Teresa Jusino

Published: Feb 16, 2016 03:59 pm

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It’s pretty amazing that the television personalities doing the most to illuminate the problems with American politics and government … aren’t natural born Americans. It’s probably for the best to sometimes look at these things from an outside perspective. While Trevor Noah is doing his South African-born thing over at The Daily Show, John Oliver is focusing his UK-born lens on the US’s electoral system.

In this amazing segment from Last Week Tonight, Oliver talks about the new voter ID laws that have been implemented in the new year across the country, and how these “common sense measures” are less about actual common sense and more about keeping certain people from voting.

Gotta love ‘Muricuh.

(via Last Week Tonight on YouTube)

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Teresa Jusino

Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.