House to take up Voting Rights extension

msnbc.com ^ | 7/12/2006

[sinkspur]

WASHINGTON - Quelling a rebellion by mostly southern conservatives over landmark civil rights legislation, House leaders announced Wednesday they will vote this week to extend the Voting Rights Act.

"We intend to go on Thursday," House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, told reporters after a weekly meeting of House Republicans.

Although a group of Republican lawmakers forced a last-minute delay in the bill in June, it has broad bipartisan support and is expected to pass the House easily. The Senate plans to take up identical legislation later this year.

[sinkspur]

You were almost giddy this morning over the possibility that the VR act extension was dead.

Sorry to disappoint.

[xcamel]

Look closely at the "mandatory bilingual ballot" provision... another guaranteed division with serious long term negative consequences.

It's really the Enhanced Voter Fraud Act.

[Ancesthntr]

I just don't friggin' believe it. This bill is the Dems wetdream, allowing all of the illegals who registered under MotorVoter to vote without having to prove eligibility.

The Republicans really ARE the Stupid Party.

[NinoFan]

This is sick.

[SauronOfMordor]

One part of HR9 has:

`(b) Any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting that has the purpose of or will have the effect of diminishing the ability of any citizens of the United States on account of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 4(f)(2), to elect their preferred candidates of choice denies or abridges the right to vote within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section.

will have the net effect of setting vote fraud in concrete.

Any attempt to require ID in order to vote will be striken down if a legal argument is made that it would have any sort of impact, no matter how small, in minority voting. Notice the text does not mandate that anybody show "significant effect". Showing that even one minority citizen would be affected would be enough to strike down any anti-fraud provision

Notice also that the text seems to mandate racial gerrymandering in order to maximize minority representitives

[sinkspur]

Notice also that the text seems to mandate racial gerrymandering in order to maximize minority representitives

The ability to isolate minorities in minority districts is one of the reasons there's a GOP majority in the House. That text is a GOOD thing as far as the GOP reps are concerned.

[Steely Tom]

On my ride home tonight I noted with interest a radio ad against my local congressman, a reliable Republican who has been in office for years, claiming that he is part of a cabal of Republicans who want to do away with the voting rights act. The ad is very slick, and sounds very much like it originates outside our congressional district.

This was the first I heard of this subject. Someone is throwing the fat in the fire over this.

[sinkspur]

This was the first I heard of this subject. Someone is throwing the fat in the fire over this.

Hastert realizes that a fight over "voting rights" is a loser; he's anxious to get this over with.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Would I be correct is assuming that most support comes from those not under the federal thumb on this issue?

[Tzimisce]

....but illegals don't need to read English to push the button next to the donkey...

Pay your taxes, millions of non paying illegals need the money. :)

[California Patriot]

Wuss alert. This brain-dead Chicagoland hack should do us all a favor and resign after the election. Hastert is a disgrace. So is the Voting Rights Act in its present form. Kudos to all Republicans who want amend it, and to any who have the guts to vote against it.

Flood their offices with angry calls.

[Kimberly GG]

"You were almost giddy this morning over the possibility that the VR act extension was dead."

Giddy? Is that so? How about you show me what I said that gave you that impression?