Posted on 10/27/2009 5:48:55 PM PDT by conservativeauditor
The issue at hand was a proposal last November to switch Kinston to a nonpartisan voting system for local elections. About 65 percent of Kinston's 15,000 registered voters are black, meaning that blacks are registered at a higher proportion than their voting-age population of 59 percent. In last November's elections, more than 11,000 of those 15,000 voted, with blacks voting in greater numbers than whites. By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, Kinston voted to eliminate party affiliations from local candidates' names on election ballots. The switch to nonpartisanship won a majority in seven of the city's nine black-majority voting precincts. In sum, nothing could be clearer than that Kinston's black voters themselves want nonpartisan elections.
Yet the Justice Department ruled that nonpartisan elections somehow violate black voting rights because apparently black voters don't know their own minds. The department ruled that unless black and white voters specifically know who the Democrat in any particular race is, the would-be Democrat might not win - and unless the would-be Democrat wins, blacks will be disenfranchised.
"Removing the partisan cue in municipal elections will, in all likelihood, eliminate the single factor that allows black candidates to be elected to office," wrote Loretta King, who at the time was acting head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If the Bush justice department did this, it would have been called “racist”.
But the Obama justice department does it and it’s not a big deal.
Good to know that we’re all “equal” now.
Absolute insanity.
It shouldn't be, really. It is now no longer a secret that Dems hate the Constitution. Their hatred of this country has bubbled to the surface over the past year. Frankly, their are no more arrogant, self-righteous people in this country than liberal Democrats.
The issue at hand was a proposal last November to switch Kinston to a nonpartisan voting system for local elections. About 65 percent of Kinston's 15,000 registered voters are black, meaning that blacks are registered at a higher proportion than their voting-age population of 59 percent. In last November's elections, more than 11,000 of those 15,000 voted, with blacks voting in greater numbers than whites. By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, Kinston voted to eliminate party affiliations from local candidates' names on election ballots. The switch to nonpartisanship won a majority in seven of the city's nine black-majority voting precincts. In sum, nothing could be clearer than that Kinston's black voters themselves want nonpartisan elections. Yet the Justice Department ruled that nonpartisan elections somehow violate black voting rights because apparently black voters don't know their own minds. The department ruled that unless black and white voters specifically know who the Democrat in any particular race is, the would-be Democrat might not win -- and unless the would-be Democrat wins, blacks will be disenfranchised.They ain't seen nothin' yet...
I love stories like that. Reminds me of the Far Side cartoon. Crocodile on the witness stand. “Of course I did it in cold blood—I’m a reptile”.
They could wreak havoc in the CBC and then vote in the interest of black business owners and job seekers (with the Rs)
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"More blatantly, department spokesman Alejandro Miyar said only a Justice Department analysis could make "the determination of who is a 'candidate of choice' for any group of voters." That's odd. We thought voters chose their candidates by, yes, voting. They vote, and then they count. Since when did a Washington bureaucrat get to tell the voters that they voted wrong? Since when did that bureaucrat get to tell a majority of black voters in a majority black city with a disproportionately high black voting registration that those selfsame black voters can't make their own choice unless the choice has a D by his name?
Just wait until Republicans try to do away with the "open" primaries befor next November. "Yet the Justice Department ruled that nonpartisan elections somehow violate black voting rights because apparently black voters don't know their own minds."......will become, "Republicans MUST have "nonpartisan primaries because declaring partisan primaries are a hate crime, and violate the democrat party's right to choose the Republican nominee.
Think it's far-fetched? Just wait.
...will become, "Republicans MUST have "nonpartisan primaries because declaring partisan primaries are a hate crime, and violate the democrat party's right to choose the Republican nominee. Think it's far-fetched? Just wait.Thanks greyfoxx39. Guess we won't be worried about the election result, because it will never be held. And the next Civil War won't take four years.
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