Posted on 12/27/2011 9:33:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The phrase voter literacy test conjures up thoughts of devious and pernicious practices once used primarily in the Deep South to disenfranchise minority voters. Yet, a ruling by a federal judge last week seems to go overboard in the opposite direction. From The Daily Caller:
A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—filled [sic] when the Department of Justice barred the city of Kinston, N.C. from holding nonpartisan elections—reasoning that lack of access to party affiliation would discriminate against minority voters who otherwise wouldn’t know how to find Democratic candidates on a ballot.
The challenge was initiated after the Justice Department rejected a 2008 referendum vote in which the city of Kinston voted to stop listing candidates’ party affiliations on ballots.
Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department must approve changes to election law in regions with a history, however distant, of racial discrimination.
In a letter to attorneys for the city of Kinston dated August 17, 2009, the Holder Justice Department explained that “the elimination of party affiliation on the ballot will likely reduce the ability of blacks to elect candidates of choice.”
Maybe there’s a subtlety here that I’m missing because I’m not black or liberal, but it sounds to me as though the U.S. Attorney General is saying that his fellow blacks lack the capacity to exercise due diligence when it comes to sizing up candidates for elected office. And here I thought it was supposed to be conservatives who believed that blacks are too dumb to tie their shoes.
Needless to say, the ACLU supported the decision of Judge John D. Bates, and so did the NAACP. Meantime, if a major voting bloc in the nation needs to have a “D” next to candidates’ names so they can tell which one to vote for, maybe a mandatory course in real voter literacy would not be that bad a thing.
It goes both ways.
If you see a candidate’s name with a (D) after it, you will know who you’re voting for as well.
Just spell it out: (D)UMB!
(D)irtbag
(D)emon
Dependent.
No party affiliation for the school board..
So... I asked the 'lady' that stopped by to ask me to vote for her what party she was affilliated with.
She told me "We don't list parties for school board candidates"...
And then the catfight started.
She left, screaming hateful things at my dear ex-wife, who knew a bull-stuff line when she heard one (she was married to me, after all).
And she eventually lost.
So, take heart. Whichever side they take, to take advantage, they will eventually lose. People will smell the stuff in the sandwich they are trying to feed the public. And say: "Oh, hell, no".
/johnny
voter registration and valid ID are also racists ideas
No, that's always been the Democrats. Additionally, Democrats believe that black kids cannot learn in school unless a white kid is sitting next to them, and that blacks are incapable of succeeding in any way without the "help" of white liberals and their welfare and food stamps and quotas, etc. Astonishingly, most blacks accept these constant slap-in-the-face insults from the Democrat party and continue to vote for Democrats en masse. The stupidity and complete lack of self esteem and shame is surreal.
"Battered wife syndrome", maybe?
(shrug) I dunno..
You read the candidate web pages, and everyone sounds exactly alike - for jobs, for accountable government, against crime, for education, etc.
The only way to choose is to read their endorsements.
When you see women's groups, eco-groups, and public sector unions rally around one candidate, you know you've found the Democrat.
This comes under the category of a two edged sword. There is an increasing segment of the voting public who will vote for the alternative to a D candidate regardless of competency. Their assumption is that all D candidates are unacceptable.
I feel that Holder and his people would be very happy if the ballot had no names on it, only a “D” and “all others”.
That's pretty much my assumption.
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