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To: jazusamo
To me the shameful thing is that special scrutiny is still applied to southern states in their voting procedures, districting, etc.

I moved to Georgia after having been raised in Wisconsin, living there for nearly 4 decades. Millions of people in Georgia today were born in other parts of the country or perhaps have moved there from other countries and become naturalized citizens. Why should they be subject to specialized scrutiny 50-60 years after serious institutional discrimination last existed in southern states?

Seriously, if there ever was an equal protection claim sitting right there in the strike zone, waiting to be hit out of the park, it would seem to me to be a claim by a resident of one of the subject states challenging the special scrutiny applied to their states in 2011.

6 posted on 08/02/2011 11:14:27 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
The South is heavier on voter ID than many other parts of the country but it's starting to change some and should. Your old state of WI has changed.

Voter ID Requirements

7 posted on 08/02/2011 11:41:06 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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