[Newsbot]

Title: Voting Rights Act's core quashed by US Supreme Court
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: xerxes
Date: 2013-06-25 10:27:51
Canadian

[Newsbot]

Title: Voting Rights Act's core quashed by US Supreme Court
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: xerxes
Date: 2013-06-25 10:27:51
Canadian

[xerxes]

Tomorrow's headline: Poll taxes return in the states south of the Mason-Dixon line.

[xerxes]

Tomorrow's headline: Poll taxes return in the states south of the Mason-Dixon line.

[commanderkai]

Unless I missed something, all it did was not have some counties in some southern states from needing to go to the federal government to change anything relating to voting, be it polling locations, voting times, what have you.

People are acting like they re-instituted poll taxes and shit like that. Sigh. The United States has enough problems without fearmongering.

[xerxes]

Except.....that Republican legislaturs all over the US, especially where sections 4&5 were aimed have succeeded at doing everything possible to make sure non-whites have as hard a time voting as possible.

[CanadianJeff]

You know what would fix this whole issue? Setting up an online way to vote so no one sees your black or Hispanic or a minority and just sees your vote. Put in your id number that you get in the mail and vote.

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

Except.....that Republican legislaturs all over the US, especially where sections 4&5 were aimed have succeeded at doing everything possible to make sure non-whites have as hard a time voting as possible.

You mean like Florida where the Justice Department refused Florida's request to purge dead people from the voter rolls?

I suppose the Supreme Court didn't think it necessary to protect the rights of the metabolically challenged.

[fifeboy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

xerxes xerxes:

Except.....that Republican legislaturs all over the US, especially where sections 4&5 were aimed have succeeded at doing everything possible to make sure non-whites have as hard a time voting as possible.

You mean like Florida where the Justice Department refused Florida's request to purge dead people from the voter rolls?

I suppose the Supreme Court didn't think it necessary to protect the rights of the metabolically challenged.

Did they vote

[BartSimpson]

fifeboy fifeboy:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

xerxes xerxes:

Except.....that Republican legislaturs all over the US, especially where sections 4&5 were aimed have succeeded at doing everything possible to make sure non-whites have as hard a time voting as possible.

You mean like Florida where the Justice Department refused Florida's request to purge dead people from the voter rolls?

I suppose the Supreme Court didn't think it necessary to protect the rights of the metabolically challenged.

Did they vote

Probably.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76443.html

[Thanos]

Voter ID is essential to prevent fraud. In this day and age there's not much excuse for any eligible citizen not to have some kind of proper ID. Bringing it in two years before an election, instead of two weeks as the GOP was trying to do in too many states in 2012, would be great as it would actually appear to being done to preserve the system rather than to just disenfranchise voters that are more likely to vote for the other side.

[Zipperfish]

Vote for Pedro.

(That should have been in the Obscure Cultural references thread)

[raydan]

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

[Jughead]

$1:

By a margin of 5-4, the justices quashed section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

They ruled that an updated formula was needed to decide which jurisdictions' election laws need monitoring.

The law requires all or parts of 15 US states, mostly in the South, to receive federal approval for election changes.

$1:

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley told the Birmingham News the decision was "the most significant ruling" in his lifetime.

"Was there a reason to pass the Voting Rights Act 48 years ago? Yes, there was," Mr Bentley said. But he said "areas of discrimination" had been "addressed".

"As governor, I can assure you we're not going to have discrimination in the state of Alabama based on race, especially related to voting," he said.

The Voting Rights Act was intended to stop practices such as literacy tests, poll taxes or similar measures to keep black people from voting, in states with a history of racial discrimination.

I agree with Alabama Governor Robert Bentley. Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act was a product of it's time, and is irrelevant today. The law should be updated to reflect modern society.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Bringing it in two years before an election, instead of two weeks as the GOP was trying to do in too many states in 2012...

The summary of these laws and etc. is quite at odds with your narrative of their being proposed just two weeks prior to last year's election.

http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/e ... ws-roundup