Posted on 01/18/2014 10:08:34 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Only seven months after the Supreme Court shattered the Voting Rights Act, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has come up with a bill that would go a long way toward putting it back together. If they can persuade Republicans in Congress to set aside partisanship and allow it to pass, they would begin to restore justice to a deeply damaged electoral process. It would be an ideal way to observe the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this week.
The bill is far from perfect. In particular, it does not give enough weight to the discriminatory effect of voter ID laws. But it would make it more difficult for states and localities to take other actions that reduce minority voting rights. Jurisdictions would once again be put under Justice Department supervision if they committed multiple violations of the Constitution.
All states and cities would be required to make public any last-minute changes to election practices, an improvement over current law, which requires such public notice in just a few states. And the bill would make it easier to stop harmful voting changes in court before they happen.
The Supreme Court’s decision last June struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which set the formula that determined which states and localities, based on their histories of discrimination, were required to get preapproval for voting changes from the Justice Department. The court’s majority ruled that the formula was obsolete, imposing a burden on states without proof that they still discriminate. The court invited Congress to come up with a new formula.
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Under the proposed formula, Justice Department oversight would currently apply to only four states: Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. . .
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“they would begin to restore justice to a deeply damaged electoral process.”
Does this mean that the dead actually have to show up to cast a ballot?
Geez, that's just silly!
Don't be silly.
......they still get to send in Absentee ballots.
The Poor can scrape up their IDs for food stamps and other freebies, but only at the voting booth is this too great a burden. It’s very obvious that Democrats want to maintain their election fraud across the fruited plain.
.they still get to send in Absentee ballots.
That would be a carve out for Chicago only.
The Republicans supporting this idea must be utterly, totally rotten, thinking that they or their states can somehow profit from oppressing southern states.
Seriously, this is as repugnant as a “pro-slavery Republican”.
> This bill, if enacted, would automatically put the voting process of four states—Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi—under the control of Eric Holder’s Justice Department.
Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
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