I'll give you the important excerpts.
This shows that the electoral map was redrawn as to screw over majority black districts (cutting off the strongest fundraising bases of the reps of those district), while going and either leaving the districts of white reps alone or expanding them and they also did this in secret as well.
This change in voter ID laws will make it so that it is more difficult for groups who would vote Democrat as the list of IDs are extremely small and many of those voters who don't have IDs (and many of whom vote for Democrats) must "travel at their own expense, produce their birth certificate, and in many cases pay a fee to get an ID." The fact that many of these people, such as the poor, may not have the money to get travel and pay the fee for the ID will make it harder for them to vote.
This is also going to happen in North Carolina (NC voter ID bill moving ahead with Supreme Court ruling :: WRAL.com) and Mississippi (Voting Rights Act ruling clears path for Mississippi voter ID use in 2014 (updated) | gulflive.com).
No, it shows that districts were redrawn to screw over blacks politicians. It's the other side of the coin with Section 5, which was used to screw over white politicians.
That's politics, not racism. Voters cannot be effected negatively by redistricting.
Redistricting, while necessary and constitutionally required, is often used to punish those who do not walk lock-step with the majority party in the legislature. By re-drawing the districts along racial lines or illegally packing voters of color into fewer districts, eliminating districts that elect moderates or progressives, current lawmakers can create districts that reduce the influence of these voters.
It's a blood sport that both parties have exploited, thereby minimizing the role of voters in the political process. By gerrymandering the districts, legislators and their political cronies have used redistricting to choose their voters, before voters have had the opportunity to choose them.
On October 6th, the Ward 5 Redistricting Task Force approved an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) redistricting plan (despite having limited information about the details) that splits apart communities and distorts voter power.
It distorts voter power. The executive committee's plan dilutes voting strength by increasing the difference from the smallest to the largest Ward 5 SMD to about 850 people.
One of the more egregious changes was in Bloomingdale. 2 districts with nearly equal populations became 3 with populations of 2,061, 2,039, and 1,399. A change was necessary because the population grew, but while the first two districts are roughly proportional, the third is significantly smaller and about 33% short of the 2,000 resident target.
As indefensible as these numbers are, what is even more stunning is that the latest Thomas plan expands those disparities further. Its SMD populations range from approximately 900 to nearly 2,800. Because this plan can neither be reconciled with the law nor justified by any circumstances on the ground, the Office of Planning will have to reject it as not worthy of serious consideration.
Actually, voters can be negatively affected by redistricting.
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Ward 5 redistricting plan hurts voters and neighborhoods - Greater Greater Washington
IOW, since all Republicans are racists, the only way for minorities to get a fair shake and stay out them chains, is for Libbos to get elected? Sounds like too much self importance, to me.
You're in a lot of pain, aren't you? I hope you're young because this kind of stress and hate is not good for your heart. Relax. The election is over and Obama won. Nothing you can do about that. But you guys are doing really well despite the fact that you're going against the wishes of the majority of people in the country. You got Citizens United and now gutted the Voting Rights Act (so now you can suppress the minority vote more easily), your war against women continues (especially at the state level where you're going after women with a vengeance) ... there's a lot for you to be happy about, at least in the short run (yes, I'm afraid to tell you that in the long run all you're doing is giving yourselves more rope to hang yourselves with) ... so chill my friend ...
In one of the links I quoted, it said that both parties engaged in gerrymandering.
Section 5 made gerrymandering legal. You're ok with that?
When did I ever say I was OK with gerrymandering?
You obviously are a supporter of Section 5, ergo you support racial gerrymandering.
Can't believe that opposition to the Libbos is about something other than racism...can you?
I haven't had time to read the opinions yet, what are your specific objections to the ruling and why?
well you know the courts have revisited issues many times, and overturned them.
why should they be mad, constitutionalists, libertarians, and some conservatives, are for state powers, being return to them.
this case says that a government bureaucrat( unelected official) does not get to decide what a states voting guidelines are.
no doubt there were blacks who
voted for Obama simply because he was black, just as there was an equal, or greater, number, who voted against him because he was black, but have you looked at the percentage of blacks who voted for Kerry and Clinton? You may notice a pattern.
Fenton, if you want dumb, look in the mirror my friend ...
Did you read my post? Apparently not ... but since I have your attention (until some shiny object distracts you), how do you feel about gay marriage? The Sup. Ct. just struck down DOMA (although states can still do what they want) and gays in CA can now get married again after the court said those who brought the case had no standing ... How do you feel about that, and please leave race out of it ...
If a judge can throw out a law because their opinion is that it is no longer relevant, then any law can be thrown out because a judge thinks it is no longer relevant. If any law can be thrown out because a judge thinks it is no longer relevant, the same is true of the Constitution.
If the Act had been ruled unConstitutional then at least it would've been tossed for reasons it is within the Court's jurisdiction to decide.
Proof please ? I mean Liberals Lie, thats a given so I'm going to need you to quantify that statement.
And I promise, I guarantee I am levels above you in intelligence.
I'll match brain pans with you or any other of the sub-species that inhabit the failed ideology of Liberalsim any time you want.
A person who doesn't even posses the fundamental reasoning capabillities to know when theyr'e being manipulated or lied to has no business critiquing my intelligence.
A person who is so susceptable to plattitudes and talking points, who follows blindly a agenda because they lack the IQ to be objective has no business critiquing my intelligence.
So next time you feel superior based on absolutely nothing and want to insult another poster directly, how about posting something intelligent to go along with it.
Instead of a absolutley inaccurate opinion.
By that logic, any law can be thrown out, because a judge thinks it's unconstitutional.
Of course any law can be thrown out on Constitutional grounds, and that's fine. What bothers me is the idea of discarding a law because a judge doesn't think it matters anymore.
It's nothing but different sides of the same coin.
excuse me, i never said anything about you and states here did i?
Of course any law can be thrown out on Constitutional grounds, and that's fine. What bothers me is the idea of discarding a law because a judge doesn't think it matters anymore.
saw that one too, but I especially liked his desire to separate church and state ...
Come on, you can't guarantee that you're more intelligent than I am
anymore than I can that I am more intelligent than you, although saying something like "match brain pans" does undermine your argument. Brain pan? Makes it sound like your brain is leaking and the pan is catching the stuff that's leaking. (Actually, I know what the brain pan is, although I'm not sure what the skull or cranium has to do with intelligence. Are you saying you have a harder skull? That wouldn't surprise me.)
And how do you determine whether it's you or me who is being manipulated? What if you're being manipulated into saying that I'm being manipulated? Do you see the problem with that kind of argument?
I thought I posted something intelligent. Maybe you can't tell when something is intelligent. You said blacks voted for Obama simply because he was black. How do you know this anyway? Some people would call that a form of bigotry because I've yet to see anyone say that white people voted for Romney because he was white. He got 47% of the vote, but almost 60% of the white vote. I simply pointed out that the vast majority of blacks vote Democratic regardless of the color of the candidate.
progressive groups are calling for a new constitutional amendment that would guarantee and protect the the right to vote. do you have any objections to that proposal
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