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US Supreme Court strikes down voting rights act clause

Looks like Humphrey almost became another Gore, or is that vice-versa?
Jack Hays said:
Per Gallup, from October to November 1968 Wallace dropped from 20% to 15% while Humphrey rose from 29% to 42%. Meanwhile, Nixon declined from 44% to 43%. Looks like those Wallace voters moved to Humphrey.:mrgreen:
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NIMBY said:
Was it within reason for the several Republican states to decrease early voting, causing 8-hour lines, some until 1:00 A.M. The VRA decision was aimed at Democratic precincts. What about eliminating voting on the Sundays before the election? This DOMA decision came after the VRA decision, IMO, to lessen the impact of the VRA decision.
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Personally, I think everyone but lawful absentees should vote on election day, so any early voting is a concession. I support voting up to a week early. More than that devalues the campaign.
 
Jack Hays said:
Personally, I think everyone but lawful absentees should vote on election day, so any early voting is a concession. I support voting up to a week early. More than that devalues the campaign.
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Would you like to see the same # of voting machines per precinct with machines of equal quality?
 
Jack Hays said:
The point was that Wallace's voters moved to Humphrey, not Nixon.
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I like to call it extrapolating. If it is the people's House, how is this House representative of the people when this House was elected with more than 50% of the people voting Democratic?
 
NIMBY said:
I like to call it extrapolating. If it is the people's House, how is this House representative of the people when this House was elected with more than 50% of the people voting Democratic?
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You wish to change the subject?
 
Jack Hays said:
That's at the discretion of state and local jurisdictions.:cool:
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Whose discretion it may be and has been to have different and unequal access to voting, you know the VRA thing. This whole sleazy Republican conspiracy to legally change voting laws and decrease the Democratic vote on every level needs to be called out for what it is.
 
NIMBY said:
Would you like to see the same # of voting machines per precinct with machines of equal quality?
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Good afternoon, NIMBY! :2wave:

The number of voting machines per precinct should be based on the number of voters expected to vote there. Why would a rural location expect to receive the same number of machines as a precinct in a big city? That would probably cause long waits, especially in a Presidential election, and wouldn't be fair.

:agree: that all voting machines, no matter where located, should be of equal quality! :thumbs:
 
NIMBY said:
Whose discretion it may be and has been to have different and unequal access to voting, you know the VRA thing. This whole sleazy Republican conspiracy to legally change voting laws on every level needs to be called out.
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And perhaps there needs to be less name-calling. Each jurisdiction has as much right as every other to manage its own affairs. After all, that's how Chicago got the Presidency for JFK.:mrgreen:
 
Jack Hays said:
You wish to change the subject?
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Ingraining any further the seriously flawed remaps, which expand a small majority into a larger majority with those elected cannot be what you believe in, is it?
 
NIMBY said:
Ingraining any further the seriously flawed remaps, which expand a small majority into a larger majority with those elected cannot be what you believe in, is it?
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I believe in duly constituted Congressional districts, revised every ten years by state governments in accordance with the Census.:cool:
 
Democrat152 said:
I seriously hope your joking. If not,
then you definably have a Fox and Friends addiction. Are you seriously trying to tell me that are southern states implementing rigid identification requirements, bans on early voting, cutbacks in the number of urban precincts, and having groups that descend on minority districts to comb the registration rolls for spelling errors are not trying to suppress the minority vote? Stop trying to defend actions such as these, it makes you look like a puppet.
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Whats the Big deal ? Texas's new voting laws should just wash out all of the Democrat election fraud.

After that we start with a even playing field.
 
Jack Hays said:
And perhaps there needs to be less name-calling. Each jurisdiction has as much right as every other to manage its own affairs. After all, that's how Chicago got the Presidency for JFK.:mrgreen:
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And I don't agree with how JFK got elected, if it is as you say. No jurisdiction should be allied to cheat or manipulate. Things are worse now, IMO, than just before the VRA.those who are dividing the Country have won.
 
Fenton said:
Whats the Big deal ? Texas's new voting laws should just wash out all of the Democrat election fraud.

After that we start with a even playing field.
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If fraud, Perry and his gang would have proven it. We read of lots of Republican fraud in multiple nearby Republican states and territories.
 
Jack Hays said:
I believe in duly constituted Congressional districts, revised every ten years by state governments in accordance with the Census.:cool:
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Duly constituted in no way addresses legitimate concerns i brought up. So be it. If there were no 17th, Repubs would barely own the Senate right now. The 17th guards against the same Repub legislatures trying to throw Federal elections right now.
 
NIMBY said:
If fraud, Perry and his gang would have proven
it. We read of lots of Republican fraud
in multiple nearby Republican states and territories.
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Not in Texas per say, as we're taking steps to insure our State never turns into a place like Michigan, or that our Cities never turn into places like Detroit, or Stockton, but just generally.

I mean there are Democrats actually doing time for their vote scams and since the Democrats no longer have control of some of those Southern States I think it's safe to say the spectre of Racism is a thing of the past.
 
NIMBY said:
Duly constituted in no way addresses
legitimate concerns i brought up. So be it. If there were no 17th, Repubs would barely own the Senate right now. The 17th guards against the same Repub legislatures trying to throw Federal elections right now.
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I see youv'e accepted the out come of the 2014 elections.

Good, acceptance is good.
 
NIMBY said:
And I don't agree with how JFK got elected, if it is as you say. No jurisdiction should be allied to cheat or manipulate. Things are worse now, IMO, than just before the VRA.those who are dividing the Country have won.
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Either extend the VRA nationwide or scrap it. No more unequal treatment.:cool:
 
NIMBY said:
Duly constituted in no way addresses legitimate concerns i brought up. So be it. If there were no 17th, Repubs would barely own the Senate right now. The 17th guards against the same Repub legislatures trying to throw Federal elections right now.
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If your concerns are contrary to the Constitution then they are not legitimate.
 
polgara said:
Good afternoon, NIMBY! :2wave:

The number of voting machines per precinct should be based on the number of voters expected to vote there. Why would a rural location expect to receive the same number of machines as a precinct in a big city? That would probably cause long waits, especially in a Presidential election, and wouldn't be fair.

:agree: that all voting machines, no matter where located, should be of equal quality! :thumbs:
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Hello dear lady. I agree with you on the quality of the machine, though that is not always the case.

Rurals tend to get more machines because of geography, causing the lines in urban areas. Anticipated voters determining the # of machines--that one is wide-open for what the SCOTUS now may as well call Legal Fraud.
 
And yesterday's Dems are today's Repubs. I'm sure DP has seen this too many times. I don't need your civil war, with "your" being you understood and not you personally. Cons on here have described how bad Houston is getting. To make this a one-way blame game means we cannot solve our differences. Both sides are deeply crooked and flawed in Illinois.
Fenton said:
Not in Texas per say, as we're taking steps to insure our State never turns into a place like Michigan, or that our Cities never turn into places like Detroit, or Stockton, but just generally.

I mean there are Democrats actually doing time for their vote scams and since the Democrats no longer have control of some of those Southern States I think it's safe to say the spectre of Racism is a thing of the past.
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In the House, yes, until at least 2022 until their is another census remap election. In the Senate, you goofs should already be ahead, but you screwed up with the last 3 elections. Dems would be smart to have a 2014 National Convention, to wake up their folks so they don't forget to vote as in 2010.
Fenton said:
I see youv'e accepted the out come of the 2014 elections.

Good, acceptance is good.
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NIMBY said:
And yesterday's Dems are today's Repubs. I'm sure DP has seen this too many
times. I don't need your civil war, with "your" being you understood and not you personally. Cons on here have described how bad Houston is getting. To make this a one-way blame game means we cannot solve our differences. Both sides are deeply crooked and flawed in Illinois.
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You couldn't be more wrong.

A dem by any other name is still a Dem. They went from running around dressed in their bed sheets to instituting policies that enable generational dependence, poverty and suffering all to trap a sub-section of our Culture so their vote could be guaranteed. Cabrini Green, Robert Taylor Homes, Queensbridge, Pruit-Igoe, Jordan Downs, the list goes on.

From slavery back to slavery, it's the Democrat way.
 
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