Michelle Obama says protecting the right to vote is the nation’s most important civil rights issue

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Michelle Obama says protecting the right to vote is the nation’s most important civil rights issue.

The Associated Press says the First Lady told a group of black lawmakers and leaders that they owed it to the people who fought and died for equal rights in the 60’s to ensure that ‘every voter can freely cast a ballot.’

Mrs. Obama’s remarks were given at an annual awards banquet for the Congressional Black Caucus, in response to a national push to pass laws requiring voters to show ID at the polls.  Critics believe the laws are unfair because they harm minorities, poor people, and college students; a group that tends to vote Democratic.

Obama says the voting rights amendment is the “march of our time” and, the “sit-in of our day.”