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What’s Lost if the
Voting Rights Act Falls?

Slate, by Richard L. Hasen

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 1/10/2013 6:05:18 AM

Odds are, the Supreme Court will strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act after hearing a case from Alabama that will be argued next month. If the part of the law called Section 5 does indeed go down, minority voters in Southern states and elsewhere will lose a key bargaining chip. Section 5 has enabled them to beat back some attempts to make it harder for them to vote, and helped insure that the gains they’ve made in representation and redistricting are not rolled back. As another recent fight over South Carolina’s voter ID law shows,

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What´s "lost" is the federal government´s unfair, selective and discriminatory ability to hammer southern states where there´s no evidence of suppression. And, voter ID is not making it harder for minorities to vote, because it applies to all voters.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Janjan, 1/10/2013 6:29:18 AM     (No. 9108337)

The idea that minority voters are somehow incapable of getting a photo ID is extremely racist. The idea that anyone should be able to walk in off the street and vote in any State without proving they are eligible is extremely dangerous. If the liberals can round up minorities and bus them to the polls they should be able to stop at the Secretary of State´s office on the way.


Reply 2 - Posted by: 3XALADY, 1/10/2013 6:42:29 AM     (No. 9108359)

I must have led a very sheltered life. Been voting since the early 60´s and have yet to see a New White Panther dude standing on the steps with a billy club trying to keep blacks from voting.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: GreatGreyhounds, 1/10/2013 6:48:35 AM     (No. 9108367)

I remember having to go in front of a Judge to explain why I needed a absentee ballot in Texas...


Reply 4 - Posted by: Jethro bo, 1/10/2013 7:03:28 AM     (No. 9108394)

Been voting for a very long time in the deep South and I have always had to present an ID. I never knew it was racist. See, most kids, if not all wanted a driver´s license. And the Dang things have a photo on ´em. And if one cared not to drive, one could the identical Driver´s card without the license part. It did require one to go to the one of many motor vehicle offices around the state and stand in line just like every one else. But it wasn´t that hard.


Reply 5 - Posted by: artman1746, 1/10/2013 7:10:17 AM     (No. 9108405)

If voters must go to a little effort in order to cast a vote that assures us that the more informed people vote. As long as everyone is subject to the same rules no discrimination is involved. Liberals are always looking for some way to stack the deck. And will use the propaganda tactic of blaming the other side for doing what they themselves are doing.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Spidey, 1/10/2013 7:24:41 AM     (No. 9108425)

Any pseudo democracy has a perfect right to protect the integrity of their voting systems,other wise why even go through the pretense of voting when the elections can easily be stolen. The left has figured out a way to avoid voting integrity,otherwise the couldn´t win big elections.

If latinos voted 80% republicans.the left would be on the border with machine guns themselves.


Reply 7 - Posted by: monique, 1/10/2013 7:26:17 AM     (No. 9108426)

it is certainly time to lose section 5 of the voting rights act. i still don´t see why people are so insistent that voter id is discrimitory. you have to have id for almost everything you do these days, cash a pay check, get on a plane, open a bank account, buy a gun or ammo. why not an id for something as important as voting? oh, right. libs and their hangers on don´t do those sort of things, only want to vote several times.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Doodah, 1/10/2013 7:38:56 AM     (No. 9108436)

Voter fraud by the Democrats is alive and well. Even Alicia Colon agrees that it was voter fraud in Florida robbing Allen West of his seat. He gave in too easily, maybe he gave out of money, etc. As many have said if we fail to get voter ID in all states in 2016, we will lose again. I was having an ultrasound yesterday, what did I have to produce? A picture I.D., even though I was in the computer from previous visits. Do you really believe most minorities don´t have a picture I.D.?


Reply 9 - Posted by: birmingham, 1/10/2013 7:52:24 AM     (No. 9108461)

#6 "If latinos voted 80% republicans.the left would be on the border with machine guns themselves." I would like see a Dem operative deny THAT with a straight face!


Reply 10 - Posted by: philly_patriot, 1/10/2013 7:57:17 AM     (No. 9108466)

All of the Voting Fraud I know if here is committed by Ds. [most by ´minorities´].

The Black D Chairman of a ward here drives Black voter in a van to multiple polling sites to vote under fraudulently registered voters names.[for payment]

WE need Voter ID NOW!!


Reply 11 - Posted by: mickturn, 1/10/2013 9:00:16 AM     (No. 9108559)

Uh, Voter Fraud is lost, and a good thing!


Reply 12 - Posted by: bighambone, 1/10/2013 9:32:06 AM     (No. 9108620)

When you go into a doctor´s office here you must show a photo ID, and have your picture taken by a digital camera, but when someone shows up to vote they don´t have to show any ID at all?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: killerbee, 1/10/2013 9:52:38 AM     (No. 9108666)

They were not able to find a single, believable case of a minority voter unable to get a picture ID. The one they thought they had said her parents didn´t have time to take her to get her license, but then she made time to fly to DC to tell congress that.

It´s all about the voter fraud. And the Republicans can´t do anything about it.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Pinchem, 1/10/2013 9:56:13 AM     (No. 9108674)

We had a good laugh the other night at the grocery store. The lady in front of me wrote a check for her purchases. The checker asked for her driver´s license. She looked it and accepted the check.

I commented, "funny it is ok showing our ID to cash a check but we can´t show an ID to vote". Everyone around agreed. Proof of the ignorance and stupidity of Liberals.

The only reason Liberals/Democrats are against voter ID is because they have nothing resembling ethics and integrity and WANT to cheat and steal elections. I defy any of them to prove me wrong.


Reply 15 - Posted by: rosewater, 1/10/2013 10:39:18 AM     (No. 9108816)

Liberals have no problem cheating because they are so morally superior to conservatives that they see it as their mission to ´save´ the country. Scum all.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Roll Tide, 1/10/2013 10:41:15 AM     (No. 9108827)

I will never understand what the big deal is or WHY these people have lived their entire lives without having to have a picture ID.

When I moved to Texas in 1983 to go to grad school, in order to cash checks, I had to have a state issued TEXAS ID card. (At that time, my Alabama driver´s license did not have a photo on it--that wasn´t so important in those days.) I rode my bicycle across town (had to ride on some busy streets) to get to the DPS. When I got there, I learned that an ID card cost $5 and a driver´s license cost $8. I went for the driver´s license! --And in those days there was absolutely no problem with the DPS in my presenting my license with no picture to prove my identity. How sad our world has become.

Why can´t these people ride bicycles (surely they know someone with one if they don´t have one themselves), take light rail (sarcasm there), or WALK 10 miles in the snow or whatever to get one? It´s certainly not very important to these people, so they should stop whining about it. There are plenty of things *I* could complain about that are much more inconvenient that I have to figure out how to do EVERY DAY! GROW UP!


Reply 17 - Posted by: shurnuff, 1/10/2013 11:48:14 AM     (No. 9109019)

Check out the lines outside stores when a huge bargain is announced. Many times is it the so-called minorities who sit outside, rain, snow or shine for hours and sometimes days to make sure they get what is being sold.

It is those same voters who are so "disenfranchised" that they are unable to get any ID to prove he or she is eligible to vote. I am up to here with this crap!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: MattMusson, 1/10/2013 12:02:26 PM     (No. 9109047)

The voting rights act was unconstitutional from the beginning. It should never have been allowed to exempt Northern and Far Western states.



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