The slimes would like a vote for every NON citizen also.
Exactly!
"...the Voting Rights Act, in which Congress kept the Constitution’s promise of a vote for every citizen..."
If the NYT was as concerned for "a [ONE] vote for every citizen [no illegal immigrants, no dead and buried, no "Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck & Pluto voters"] as they are about the Feds continual sticking of their thumbs in the eyes of Southern states, then I might listen to what they have to say.
Liberals go on & on about the Constitutions being a "living, breathing document" and "our lives don't need to be ruled by dead white guys".
Ummm, guys, the Voting Rights Act was passed 48 years ago by mostly dead, mostly white (only 5 or 6 members of Congress in 1965 were 'African American)
"African American Members of the United States Congress: 1870-2012"
We now have a true African-American president, 42 A-A members if Congress, a Supreme Court Justice, a couple of past Secretaries of State and even South Carolina [remember Ft Sumter] now has a black US Senator.
NYT & the rest of you liberals & race-baiters, get over it. The Supreme Court has ruled that portions of the VRA are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!. They have been for 48 years.
BTW, "...the Constitution’s promise of a vote for every citizen..." is a figment of an illiterate imagination.
"When the country was founded, in most states, only white men with real property (land) or sufficient wealth for taxation were permitted to vote. Freed slaves could vote in four states. Unpropertied white men, women, and all other people of color were denied the franchise. At the time of the American Civil War, most white men were allowed to vote, whether or not they owned property. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and even religious tests were used in various places, and most white women, people of color, and Native Americans still could not vote."
Women did not get the vote until 1920
Persons between 18 and 21 could not vote until 1971.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States"