"Throwing out [part of the VRA] when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like thowing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."What a beautiful metaphor !! And how right on target she was.
Republicans are losing no time proving her right. Freed from the pre-clearance to change voting laws, some states are rushing to enact, or add to, measures to suppress voting by groups that favor Democrats. It's not just the Old South; it's Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida
They have four kinds of "remedies" to the non-existent "voter fraud" -- which itself is a fraudulent claim.
The four remedies are: (1) voter ID, (2) no Sunday voting, (3) no same day registration, and (4) redrawing voting district maps.
They can't even come up with some half-plausible rationale, so they keep repeating "voter fraud," which has been shown again and again to be virtually non-existent at the polls -- all the while blithely ignoring the real voting fraud problem in absentee ballot voting.
Right now, I am feeling envious of the Egyptian people. Their new government wasn't representing them and wasn't working -- so they managed to get it ousted and will have new elections.
Ralph
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