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Oh my God! The OP was asking about the Voting Rights Act but didnt know how to phrase it! I responded to allydriver's charming, welcoming, helpful post AND gave the OP the information he needed in my first post. The OP thanked me for the information in my second post. I hate to say this but How dare you accuse me of weaseling the way you horrid people do. Projection maybe?!
I think after all the back and forth about this last night, you would finally admit that the OP was concerend his voting rights would be taken away, thus the need for voting on it every so often. That was his concern and it was unfounded.
I think after all the back and forth about this last night, you would finally admit that the OP was concerend his voting rights would be taken away, thus the need for voting on it every so often. That was his concern and it was unfounded.
Confusion about what turned out to be the VRA is what created his concern in the first place. He had little glimmers of information but not everything he needed to put together the whole picture. You all did a great job helping him out.
Typing slower didnt make you any brighter. Whether to extend the VRA -- "only" section 5 of the VRA, it's still under the title VRA and it's the most important part -- still has to be decided by vote every X years by Congress, as your quote indicates. That's what the OP was asking about.
You know people dont come here to ask honest questions very often. Why not try to help them when they do come?
You know people dont come here to ask honest questions very often. Why not try to help them when they do come?[/quote]
Actually I was trying to help but you don't like the answers.
"Why was Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Important? While the provisions of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act are permanent, Section 5 was due to expire on August 6, 2007. Had that happened, places which are currently covered jurisdictions would no longer have been subject to preclearance and would have been free to change their election systems".
Section five and only section five is reauthorized, not the entire VRA but it's voted on under the NAME of the VRA.
Could someone please explain why my rights and my freedom as a black person are voted on every 20 or so years. Is there anything President Obama can do about that without having the world explode!
I think we found our first documented time traveler. Let's catch him, waterboard him, and find out everything he knows about the Lincoln asassination!
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