Can I ask a stupid question? Will be flamed by any liberal radical types, but here it is:
Do we still need a Voting Rights Act? I’ve heard that blacks in the south are registered and voting in record numbers. In some southern communities, blacks are registered at a higher rate than whites. In some southern communities, blacks are registrars of voters and work in the offices which register voters. The old literacy tests and other means of making people jump through hoops to register to vote are gone.
I’ve heard some liberals complain that the disabling of the Voting Rights Act enforcement provisions has allowed some places to restrict early voting, for example. Is there a constitutional right to vote up to a month before election day? As long as the early voting restrictions are applied equally to everyone, there is no equal protection of the laws violation anyway.
It seems to me that the Voting Rights Act succeeded in dismantling a discriminatory voting registration system. If the law goes away, it doesn’t mean that we are automatically back in the days of Jim Crow, in spite of what the MSNBC crowd is saying.
End it don’t mend it.
There is no right to vote in the Constitution, and they left it out on purpose.
The FOUNDERS had no intention that everyone should vote, and all efforts should be made to restrict the franchise in order to preserve the Republic.