Voting Rights Turnabout - Victory for disfranchised (White) Miss. voters ~ John Fund

Opinion Journal ~ John Fund - On the Trail ^ | July 2, 2007 | John Fund

[Elle Bee]

Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that "these abuses have been racially motivated."

Among the abuses catalogued by Judge Tom Lee were the paying of notaries public to visit voters and illegally mark their absentee ballots, manipulation of the registration rolls, importation of illegal candidates to run for county office, and publication of a list of voters, classified by race, who might have their ballots challenged. The judge criticized state political officials for being "remiss" in addressing the abuses. The U.S. Justice Department, which sued Noxubee officials under the Voting Rights Act, has called conditions there "the most extreme case of racial exclusion seen by the [department's] Voting Section in decades."

.

[Elle Bee]

Explosive stuff, so why haven't you heard about it? Because the Noxubee case doesn't fit the media stereotype for voting rights abuses. The local political machine is run by Ike Brown, a twice-convicted felon. Mr. Brown is black, and the voters who were discriminated against were white.

Judge Lee concluded that Mr. Brown retained his power "by whatever means were necessary." According to the judge, Mr. Brown believed that "blacks, being the majority race in Noxubee County, should hold all elected offices, to the exclusion of whites." (Whites are 30% of the county's 12,500 people, but only two of the 26 elected county officials.) Judge Lee also criticized top officials of the state Democratic Party for "failing to take action to rectify [Mr. Brown's] abuses."

.

[Hazcat]

What was that Dim talking point? Oh yeah, now I remember....Culture of Corruption!

[SolitaryMan]

I wish they were this aggressive with Philadelphia were some precincts get 99%+ turnout...., can you say ballot stuffing?

[Elle Bee]

well Bush and his Justice Department have the cahones of a GOP Senator ... so don't expect anything to happen

.

[cake_crumb]

"Culture of Corruption!"

Shame our fair and balanced mass media will never report it. If it were a REPUBLICAN that did it, there'd be demands for a congressional investigation og the Bush administration's disenfranchizing of (HAH) minority voters, followed be demands for impeachment.

[Elle Bee]

well the dems ARE calling for the removal of the AG for unloading some Clinton USAs who were not aggressive enough on voter fraud.

and Bush and the GOP just cower

.

[cake_crumb]

Dems are ALWAYS calling for the removal of somebody in the Bush administration, from the president on down. The best tactic would be to dismiss them by pointing out the number of years they've been calling on EEEEEEVEEEEEL Republican name here to step down (they've been doing it since 2000).

As for Gonzales, I have no respect for his ability to be AG, but he is innocent of whatever the Democrats are trying to stick on him.