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Expand Voting Right ACT Say A.Young!

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Andrew Young: Expand Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights Act has not outlived its usefulness and in fact should be expanded, says former Ambassador Andrew Young, who helped draft it in 1965.

“You'd think we wouldn’t be having this discussion 50 years later,’’ Young told Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.’’ “People are making efforts to make it more difficult for citizens to vote at a time when we need more citizens voting.’’

At issue is a case in front of Supreme Court involving Alabama’s Shelby County, which questions the validity of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. That section requires states with a history of racial discrimination to have any changes to their voting laws pre-approved by the Justice Department or federal court.

The suit claims the section — which now only affects a handful of states — has outlived its usefulness, and there are suggestions the Supreme Court may agree. Young does not.

“If anything, the incidents of the last election and the voter suppression all across the country to me mean we really need to expand Section 5’s jurisdiction to include Ohio and some of the other states that were left out,’’ Young said.
 
Works for me.
 
In florida they recently stopped sunday voting because that is when most of the non whites vote.So yes the voting rights act needs expanded to ptevent the republican party from making laws to supress democratic voters.

Understand?
 
Why not go for universal voting sufferage?

Everyone 18 years or older has the right to vote, if they present proper photographic identification, like school Id, state Id, or a drivers license.
 
“If anything, the incidents of the last election and the voter suppression all across the country to me mean we really need to expand Section 5’s jurisdiction to include Ohio and some of the other states that were left out,’’ Young said.

Wonder if he's referring to the the self admitted woman who voted 6 times. Wait, voter fraud doesn't exist and any effort to thwart it is simply voter suppression.
 
Why not go for universal voting sufferage?

Everyone 18 years or older has the right to vote, if they present proper photographic identification, like school Id, state Id, or a drivers license.

Most IDs cost money, and poll taxes are unconstitutional.
 
Wonder if he's referring to the the self admitted woman who voted 6 times. Wait, voter fraud doesn't exist and any effort to thwart it is simply voter suppression.

If only we had as much concern over electoral fraud, which is rampant, as we do for voter fraud, which shows up about as frequent as the coelacanth does these days, we could reach an accord.
 
In florida they recently stopped sunday voting because that is when most of the non whites vote.So yes the voting rights act needs expanded to ptevent the republican party from making laws to supress democratic voters.

Why would most non whites vote on Sundays? It's not like they have anything going on during the rest of the week.
 
Why would most non whites vote on Sundays? It's not like they have anything going on during the rest of the week.

Stay classy champ!
 
Most IDs cost money, and poll taxes are unconstitutional.

I had to mail my voter registration application in, was the stamp, paper, and ink a poll tax?
 
Why would most non whites vote on Sundays? It's not like they have anything going on during the rest of the week.
They are very church orientated and a lot of them go to church on sunday.
 
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I had to mail my voter registration application in, was the stamp, paper, and ink a poll tax?

I used an absentee ballot and I was surprised not to get a postage paid envelope with it.
 
Most IDs cost money, and poll taxes are unconstitutional.

You can buy a single I.D. and it last you for years if not decades. You don't have to buy one specifically for the election therefore it is not a poll tax.
 
He is classier than gas station sushi.

What's hiliarious is that the same people who say stupid **** like this blaming minorities for being unemployed moochers will also be the same ones whining that they are taking their jobs at the same time.
 
In florida they recently stopped sunday voting because that is when most of the non whites vote.So yes the voting rights act needs expanded to ptevent the republican party from making laws to supress democratic voters.

Understand?

you , and minority voters in Florida, should like the new law..... now instead of 10 of 67 counties offering Sunday early voting... all of them are required to offer a Sunday vote a week and a half before the election day.

say " thank you Republicans, for making Sunday a statewide early voting day.. now more minorities can vote ".. and move along.
 
you , and minority voters in Florida, should like the new law..... now instead of 10 of 67 counties offering Sunday early voting... all of them are required to offer a Sunday vote a week and a half before the election day.

say " thank you Republicans, for making Sunday a statewide early voting day.. now more minorities can vote ".. and move along.

Source please? I am not familiar with that provision of the florida law.

Do you know the defination of cut?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/09/24/florida-early-voting-cuts-survive/
 
you , and minority voters in Florida, should like the new law..... now instead of 10 of 67 counties offering Sunday early voting... all of them are required to offer a Sunday vote a week and a half before the election day.

say " thank you Republicans, for making Sunday a statewide early voting day.. now more minorities can vote ".. and move along.

That's awesome news. Definite kudos to the GOPers who went in on this.
 
Source please? I am not familiar with that provision of the florida law.

Do you know the defination of cut?

Florida early voting cuts survive

Chris Cate, a spokesman for the state Division of Elections, said in an email that, "Advocates of Sunday voting should actually favor the new law because it requires a day of Sunday voting, which the previous law did not." The required Sunday voting is about a week and a half before Election Day -- not the final Sunday.


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whoops screwed up the link the first time...
 
If only we had as much concern over electoral fraud, which is rampant, as we do for voter fraud, which shows up about as frequent as the coelacanth does these days, we could reach an accord.

Well, there are layers of safeguards to prevent electoral fraud, we just take the word of the voter to prevent voter fraud. God forbid someone has to identify themselves to show they're eligible to vote.
 
Well, there are layers of safeguards to prevent electoral fraud, we just take the word of the voter to prevent voter fraud. God forbid someone has to identify themselves to show they're eligible to vote.

Sounds like a testament to the honesty of our citizens as opposed to politicians like Katherine Harris. And if its just up to just taking their word for it... why do people have people been charged with voter fraud then?
 
Sounds like a testament to the honesty of our citizens as opposed to politicians like Katherine Harris.

Or, it makes nearly impossible to truly gauge how much voter fraud actually occurs since names aren't attached to ballots, just rolls.
 
Or, it makes nearly impossible to truly gauge how much voter fraud actually occurs since names aren't attached to ballots, just rolls.

The Bush administration spent millions investigating voter fraud and...

After a five-year hunt for voter fraud, the Bush administration's Justice Department came up with little widespread fraud, finding mostly cases of people mistakenly filling out voter registration forms or voting when they didn't know they were ineligible, The New York Times reported in 2007. But none of the cases involved a person voting as someone else.

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