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US House passes voting rights bill, restoring critical provision of landmark law
The Guardian via msn ^ | 24 August 2021 | Sam Levine

Posted on 08/24/2021 5:07:55 PM PDT by blueplum

The US House of Representatives has passed an update to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, restoring a critical provision of the landmark civil rights law that requires places with a history of voting discrimination to be under federal supervision....

... It sets a 25-year look-back period for assessing voting rights in jurisdictions.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blm; discrimination; election; elections; federalizedelections; hose; votingrights
passed on party lines, now goes to the Senate.
1 posted on 08/24/2021 5:07:55 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

“voting discrimination” like requiring identification?


2 posted on 08/24/2021 5:11:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

“voting discrimination” like requiring identification?
= = =

No, any jurisdiction with a Repub voting majority.


3 posted on 08/24/2021 5:13:14 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: blueplum

The Party of the Confederacy, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Codes and Jim Crow believes that it is OTHER PEOPLE who are racists.


4 posted on 08/24/2021 5:14:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: blueplum

“a history of voting discrimination”

IOW, anyplace where Republicans win


5 posted on 08/24/2021 5:14:22 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: blueplum

It’s an open door for fed control of all elections because in their view everywhere discriminates.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 5:15:36 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

Yep.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 5:21:41 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: blueplum

More ways for the Dems to cheat..like there isn’t already enough ways..for Dems “Democracy” means cheating..cheating by importing millions of Afghans to swing states to flip them blue..”Democracy” like importing millions of illegals across the southern border to swing states..it will never end


8 posted on 08/24/2021 5:26:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: blueplum
They just ram thru AMNESTY FOR 30,000,000 invaders using reconciliation ..
How is this Amnesty a Budget ITEM.?
Where is rules people to stop this ?

Mitchy and Linda Grahnesty purposely ram thru that
phony Infrastructure lie to get the Reconciliation a vehicle to
finally get Koch Bros - C O C Amnesty with No Gop votes .
One party Rule like the Globalists Ordered . Pure Evil .

The Gop will be dead because of it .

9 posted on 08/24/2021 5:35:28 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: blueplum

Fine. If we win the midterms we put NY, CA. and IL under scrutiny.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 5:36:39 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Scrambler Bob

Endless Federal litigation and backroom settlements.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 5:53:03 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Williams

hammer nail. but I would add, only in white areas because they have to press the optics for media photoops that white areas suppress the vote. I doubt that there will be fed polls in Brooklyn, Washington Park or South Atlanta


12 posted on 08/24/2021 6:04:39 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: BenLurkin

Stealing the elections from now on


13 posted on 08/24/2021 7:38:23 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: blueplum
Related...

House Democrats Pass Federal Takeover of America’s Elections

Put simply: HR4 is HR1.

15 posted on 08/25/2021 3:57:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: blueplum

Oy.


16 posted on 08/27/2021 12:43:38 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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