Deputy President Kamala Harris was criticized on Saturday for violating voter ID rules, saying rural Americans could not get copies of their IDs.


"I don't think we should underestimate what that [the voter ID rules] could mean," Harris said in an interview with BET News. "Because for some people, that means you will have to do an Xerox or make a copy of your ID to send it to prove your identity. Yes, there are a lot of people, especially people living in rural communities, don't - no Kinkos, no OfficeMax around them."


"It's true that people have to prove who they are," Harris continued, but "not in a way that makes it difficult for them to prove who they are."

The vice-president's remarks came amid a global war over voting ownership laws, in which states such as Georgia and Texas took over. Many developments say that voter ID laws are "discriminatory," while Republicans suggest a change in laws to prevent voter fraud

Rural Americans are protesting the comments of the vice president - who spent the past two weekends at his Brentwood home in Los Angeles following a brief visit to the US-Mexico border in late June - indicating he has lost contact with the nation.

Last month, President Biden announced he had approached Harris to lead the White House battle to increase access to the ballot box, a problem the vice president told BET News to ask directly to lead. In that interview, however, Harris noted that he may not have said "'no' enough" in most assignments from Biden, but that he used to do "many jobs".