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Justice Department Expert Witness: Blacks 'Less Sophisticated Voters'
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | October 20, 2014 | J. Christian Adams

Posted on 10/21/2014 3:03:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

An expert witness paid with tax dollars by the United States Department of Justice testified that North Carolina election laws impact black voters disproportionately and that blacks are less sophisticated.

Charles Stewart, a political scientist was retained by the Justice Department to testify against voter identification laws and other election integrity measures. His testimony argued that ending same day voter registration and requiring voters to vote in the precinct where they live constitutes racial discrimination.

When asked if terminating the ability to register to vote on the day that someone casts a ballot impacts blacks disproportionately, Stewart testified in court that it did. Stewart:

It's also the case that -- well, yes, so it would, empirically more likely affect African Americans. Also, understanding within political science, that people who register to vote the closer and closer one gets to Election Day tend to be less sophisticated voters, tend to be less educated voters, tend to be voters who are less attuned to public affairs. That also tells me from the literature of political science that there are likely to be people who will end up not registering and not voting. People who correspond to those factors tend to be African Americans, and, therefore, that's another vehicle through which African Americans would be disproportionately affected by this law.

Blacks tend to be less sophisticated, less educated, and lower information voters, according to a taxpayer-funded Justice Department expert. Experts for the Voting Section of the United States routinely make tens of thousands of dollars for this sort of expert testimony, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ericholder; obama; voting
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The democrats are racists, but they know what motivates their base. Thus, the Fergusson, Missouri nonsense and the tray martin electioneering in the 2012 election.


41 posted on 10/21/2014 6:34:43 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

42 posted on 10/21/2014 6:35:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: jimfree

Or designated “public school” where they are blocked from choosing better schools.


43 posted on 10/21/2014 6:38:21 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gibmedats are all about buying their vote: “Vote for me and I will give you gibmedats some stuff!”

Back in the 1920’s the Democrat party hated blacks but they knew they could gain power if they simply promised blacks money from the treasury, and we all know that once the citizens can vote themselves money from the treasury a country is doomed.


44 posted on 10/21/2014 6:39:14 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: ConservativeMind

The funny thing is, the left has corrupted the language so much that “sophisticated” has come to mean “smart”.

To “sophisticate” something means to adulterate or corrupt it.

Yes, leftists are “sophisticated” in their thinking by their own pride in their assumption of superiority.


45 posted on 10/21/2014 6:39:38 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: dfwgator

I think proper ebonic grammar would be
“Where my free $hit at?”


46 posted on 10/21/2014 6:40:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: pepsionice
simply because his name came ahead of the opponent Vic Rawl

You don't think his name - the same as the black singer Al Greene - had anything to do with it? BTW - it was SC, not NC.

47 posted on 10/21/2014 6:46:09 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Graybeard58
Three cheers for you, for using the word, "infer", correctly, many do not.

Are you implying that we're less sophisticated? LOL

48 posted on 10/21/2014 6:47:50 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Graybeard58

Check this out for proper use of commonly misused words:

“Diversity” has a working definition of
“fewer white people and less Western Culture”


49 posted on 10/21/2014 7:01:11 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Di longer you verk here, diverse it gets.


50 posted on 10/21/2014 7:11:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
well, yes, so it would, empirically more likely affect African Americans

If they are African-Americans they shouldn't be voting any way. Voting is for AMERICANS only.

So called African-Americans have as much in common with Africa as they do with the man in the moon...never been there, wouldn't know where to go on the continent if they managed to get there, wouldn't have any idea how to speak any of the languages, wouldn't last more than two weeks, and after that they would have no one to blame for their failures and die of LOSWTBAS (Lack Of Some Whites To Blame Anxiety Syndrome)

51 posted on 10/21/2014 7:35:54 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
That is the dirty “secret” - the Democrats depend on the votes of the least informed and least sophisticated members of the public. Demagoguery is the route to success in their business model.

The way Democrats prey on blacks and the LIV's makes one wonder that if Down Syndrome people were a large enough demographic voting bloc that they would promise to get rid of their extra Chromosome 21 if they would vote for Dems.

52 posted on 10/21/2014 7:42:03 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: BykrBayb
This is what I was responding to:

Blacks tend to be less sophisticated, less educated, and lower information voters, according to a taxpayer-funded Justice Department expert.

What is untrue in that statement?

53 posted on 10/21/2014 8:52:28 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: ladyjane
Are you implying that we're less sophisticated? LOL

Is that what you infer?

(Right back atcha.)

54 posted on 10/21/2014 10:05:39 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl 12 V.13)
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To: Graybeard58

LOL

I once private freepmailed a poster who incorrectly used the word infer rather than imply. I figured they’d want to know they were misusing the word. They did not appreciate the information. Understatement.


55 posted on 10/21/2014 10:17:47 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Enterprise

Begging your pardon, as we discussed with unanimity here at the time, it is often EXACTLY the Court’s job “to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices” — because those “consequences” for the past six years have far more often than not been unconstitutional laws and unconstitutional Presidential overreach.


56 posted on 10/21/2014 10:21:05 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

I was posting a quote from Roberts. I wasn’t endorsing it.


57 posted on 10/21/2014 10:26:43 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Of course you were. Why include the quote, if not to support your comment?


58 posted on 10/21/2014 10:31:51 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy
Let's reword it to show you what you are accusing me of supporting.

If it is the job of the courts to protect people from the consequences of their political decisions, then it is the job of the courts to coddle people who are effing lazy and stupid.

59 posted on 10/21/2014 10:40:51 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... people who register to vote the closer and closer one gets to Election Day tend to be less sophisticated voters, tend to be less educated voters, tend to be voters who are less attuned to public affairs.

Exactly the sort who shouldn't bother to vote anyway.

60 posted on 10/21/2014 11:15:36 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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