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The Texas Republican Party has released its official platform for 2012, and the repeal of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of its central planks.
"We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized," the platform reads.
Under a provision of the Voting Rights Act, certain jurisdictions must obtain permission from the federal government -- called "preclearance" -- before they change their voting rules. The rule was put in place in jurisdictions with a history of voter disenfranchisement.
Some elected officials, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, have since argued that the rules put an unfair burden on certain places and not others. Texas is one of nine states that must obtain preclearance before changing its electoral guidelines.
I believe this has always been a part of the Texas GOP platform because part of the law applies to some areas of the country and not to others. The Act shouldn't be repealed, but the preclearance portion of it should be revisited.
Tell me why you think Texas should have special guidelines that 41 other states dont have? validate to me that you know what you're talking about, rather than just repeating a Huffington POS piece.
Honestly, the portion of the voting rights act they are questioning is highly discriminatory and should be repealed. Why are some states and jurrisdictions allowed to require such things as ID to vote, while others are prevented from doing so by the federal government? There might have been some faint justification for it 50 years ago, but not today. Of course, today it is not about voting rights, it is about abuse of the electorial process to ensure that inelligable people manage to vote in some places.
Honestly, the portion of the voting rights act they are questioning is highly discriminatory and should be repealed. Why are some states and jurrisdictions allowed to require such things as ID to vote, while others are prevented from doing so by the federal government? There might have been some faint justification for it 50 years ago, but not today. Of course, today it is not about voting rights, it is about abuse of the electorial process to ensure that inelligable people manage to vote in some places.
Exactly they passed voter ID here in PA and since it's already been decided by the Supreme Court it's constitutional there is nothing the DOJ can do about it....... yet in Texas they are being sued by the DOJ for the same law.
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Seems like standard Texas GOP insanity to me. It's just the usual hate-filled, anti-American, anti-freedom diatribe they've been spewing for years.
As for why certain states have to get preclearance? Well, that's what happens when you continually try to deny minorities the right to vote, then get drug into court, lose, and come up with some new scheme to deny voting rights, then go back to court, lose again, then come up with yet another scheme to deny voting rights...
Don't like it? Don't try to stop legitimate voters from casting ballots.
Fortunately, we don't have to worry about this going away anytime soon. SCOTUS already ruled 8-1 in support of preclearance (in 2009) and Bush renewed the provision in 2006, good for the next 25 years.
It would not be an issue, if it applied to all states.
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