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cb1000rider wrote:

JALLEN wrote: It is the Dems who are the vote riggers, intimidators, machine politicians, etc.

Prove it.
Lots of illegal behavior on both sides of the political isles.

If you're looking down your nose at one party and thinking that they're the cause of all of our problems, you've only got it half right... Seriously.

I look down my nose at both parties, having had my faith in either one of them abused as a loyal party member at various times in my life, but there is a significant difference between the two.... The democrat party is a well oiled machine, and its corruption is intentional, while the republicans are merely incompetent. Incompetence sometimes produces stumbling, but it rarely produces deliberate violations of the law. I think we can agree that the legacy media are largely sympathetic to the dems, and yet there are far more stories appearing on their pages about democrat corruption than republican corruption. Furthermore, when dems get caught, the party circles the wagon and defends them. When republicans get caught, the party tends to disown them.

Wes wrote:I had to call DPS yesterday to set up a driving class for a family member yesterday and they already have a recorded message playing that says an ID is required to vote and all DPS offices have the proper paperwork to get one.

About time.

sjfcontrol wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

EEllis wrote:If there is still a need then have it set for todays facts.

The analysis I've seen today says that this is exactly what today's decision does. It requires that any need be justified by current facts, not 40 year old facts, because by any measure, the VRA was so successful that those 40 year old facts no longer apply. In fact, before the bill was passed, only a small percentage of black Alabamans were registered to vote. Today, 25% of Alabama registered voters are black, and blacks represent 26% of the state's population......so they vote in higher numbers than Alabaman whites do. There is no more need for the VRA in Alabama.

How does Texas compare?

You know, I don't know. I got some of the Alabama information here: http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/i ... xml&coll=2, but it doesn't mention Texas. But my guess is that Alabama is representational of the south. Minority voter intimidation is a thing of the past that largely only exists in the fevered memories of race hucksters who largely live in the north. I would go so far as to say that the voter fraud rampant in the large leftist cities of the coasts, the midwest, and the northeast, is SO bad that they need the same kind of Justice Department oversight formerly reserved for the southern states. In the south, people have had to figure out how to accommodate one another and live in the same communities together. But in the north, where democrats have had a lot more success dividing people along racial lines, the corruption of the voting process is legendary.

EEllis wrote:If there is still a need then have it set for todays facts.

The analysis I've seen today says that this is exactly what today's decision does. It requires that any need be justified by current facts, not 40 year old facts, because by any measure, the VRA was so successful that those 40 year old facts no longer apply. In fact, before the bill was passed, only a small percentage of black Alabamans were registered to vote. Today, 25% of Alabama registered voters are black, and blacks represent 26% of the state's population......so they vote in higher numbers than Alabaman whites do. There is no more need for the VRA in Alabama.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/ ... nger-held/

Key features of the Voting Rights Act have been overturned. Southern states no longer subject to increased (unfair) scrutiny during elections.