Posted on 10/22/2009 5:41:03 AM PDT by the Real fifi
The Supreme Court recently faced a challenge to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A Texas municipality requested that it be allowed to be relieved from the onerous and expensive preclearance provisions of the Act. The Supreme Court avoided a ruling on the constitutional question but did allow the municipality to “bail out “ of the preclearance requirements.
Under those requirements, a number of states and voting districts (mostly in the South, but also including parts of seven non-Southern states such as Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx in New York) must obtain preclearance from the Department of Justice to alter any election provisions.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
A public referendum overwhelmingly favored changing from partisan to nonpartisan municipal elections. DOJ disallowed the vote stating it takes away the protection the Democrat Party provides blacks, or something like that
Go to the link, Kinston, NC is mentioned in the full article.
If the Supremes move toward more constitutional governance, the voting rights act eventually will be thrown out.
That’s a big ‘IF’ though.
Did you read the article? It IS about Kinston.
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