Is the Voting Rights Act still needed?
L.A. Times
2013/02/27 19:00:00
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The Supreme Court justices divided sharply along ideological lines Wednesday as they debated whether racial discrimination in voting remains a serious problem in the South, with conservative justices pushing toward striking down a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Justice Antonin Scalia called the law “a perpetuation of a racial entitlement…. This is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress.” He was responding to U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., who noted that the Senate voted unanimously in 2006 to extend the Voting Rights Act.
But Scalia and his conservative colleagues showed hostility to one of the nation’s landmark civil rights measures. Even if the law once was badly needed, they insisted Congress did not have the evidence to justify continuing a measure that requires officials in nine states, mostly in the South, to seek advance clearance from Washington before they make changes in their election laws.
Justice Antonin Scalia called the law “a perpetuation of a racial entitlement…. This is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress.” He was responding to U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., who noted that the Senate voted unanimously in 2006 to extend the Voting Rights Act.
But Scalia and his conservative colleagues showed hostility to one of the nation’s landmark civil rights measures. Even if the law once was badly needed, they insisted Congress did not have the evidence to justify continuing a measure that requires officials in nine states, mostly in the South, to seek advance clearance from Washington before they make changes in their election laws.
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justfred 2013/02/27 23:29:51
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty effin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?
I am of age, I registered, I have a photo I.D., I voted. Not very complicated.
Now it is a punitive law that applied only to certain southern states and clings to the notion that southern states are more racists than Northern States. Which is absurd and unconstitutional.
Wisconsin’s Photo Voter ID will cost about $6 million to stop 0.00003% of documented voter fraud
To "stop" voter fraud in Wisconsin, it will cost $545,454.54 per incident of voter fraud.
"The only place to get a Photo ID to vote is at a DMV center and there are three Wisconsin counties that don’t have a single one. Only one DMV has weekend hours and nearly all are on part-time schedules."
But it will be Bush's fault.
http://townhall.com/columnist...
And here is another link to a Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...