[Cincinatus' Wife]

***....Under the ostensibly temporary Section 5, due to expire in 2007, prior approval must be obtained from the U.S. Department of Justice for any change in voting standards, practices or procedures in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, Alaska and Arizona. A handful of counties and townships elsewhere are also covered.

It is a form of martial law selectively applied. And yet, the odds are strong that the U.S. Congress will extend pre-clearance requirement, even though the original justification is no longer valid.

The point is, however, that the original case for seizing the right of Georgia's elected officials to draw districts and to conduct elections is no longer valid. Now it is rank discrimination, without rational basis.....***

[sabatino28]

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[topher]

If this is needed anywhere, it is in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Chicago (Daly machine), California (illegal alien vote), NYC, and Louisiana (especially after Katrina).

[Past Your Eyes]

"Gov. Sonny Perdue, who is 58, was just old enough to vote."

Hmmm. I happen to be 58 as well and I couldn't vote until I was 21, which would have been 1968. No wonder Georgia needs a little extra help. ";^o

[Popman]

Democrats in one-party Georgia were denying blacks the right to vote.

Startling admission from the AJC.

I'm surprised it wasn't stated in the more PC way or at least a disclaimer that all those evil democrats voters are now republicans

[DaiHuy]

"Gov. Sonny Perdue, who is 58, was just old enough to vote." Actually he would have only been 18yo at the time, not even old enough to vote in 1965 (you had to be 21).

[DaiHuy]

"Gov. Sonny Perdue, who is 58, was just old enough to vote."

Actually he would have only been 18yo at the time, not even old enough to vote in 1965 (you had to be 21).

[Paul C. Jesup]

I remember ten years or so that the Federal Supreme Court declared politcal districts designed to give one race a advantage over another to be Unconstitutional.

This dealt with the district that supported blacks in Georgia that ran up the Northeast side of the side. The district was broken up.