Posted on 05/17/2011 2:35:22 PM PDT by Reese Hamm
Newt Gingrich is facing criticism for yet another idea he has floated during his presidential campaign -- that the country bring back tests for voting, which were banned by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a tool used to suppress African-American voters. Now, Think Progress reports, none other than Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL), an African-American, is disagreeing -- and referring to the sort of discrimination that his own parents faced.
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From Chariots of Fire:
Reverend. J.D. Liddell: Sandy, the kingdom of God is not a democracy. The Lord never seeks reelection. There’s no discussion, no deliberation, no referanda as to which road to take. There’s one right, one wrong. One absolute ruler.
Sandy: A dictator, you mean?
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This country goes further in the toilet every time it makes another move to kowtow to the damn stinking ignant rabble in da street. They don’t no nothin and are proud of it, think logick and rettrick are tools of the white oppressor, they hate you and they don’t really care if they get ahead in life, as long as somebody sticks it to YOU.
how did they do it for felons
Yup....I cant find it any where........
I wouldn't trust a single word of what this vile dirtbag writer says Newt, Col. West or anyone else has to say on anything.
No, they'd rather believe a lefty blogger's version than hear the words for themselves.
I don't understand, are you saying that in order to vote you don't believe we need the ability to read or write? I'm sorry, maybe you were just being sarcastic and I didn't catch it.
I must be missing something. I see a lesson plan, but not the questions...
The point is that white voters were given a pass. Look up the origin of the term "Grandfather Clause." Passed in seven southern states after the end of Reconstruction, it stated that voters whose grandfathers were eligible to vote before 1867 were exempt from taking the test.
Yeah, well that just makes way too much sense to be taken seriously.
Gingrich can’t hold a candle to the greatest female speech maker in American history.
What would the answer have been in 1965?
This is his good buddy Boortz’s idea. He had to throw Boortz a bone since he hasn’t been vocal in support of Boortz’s fair tax baby.
Repeat. There is nothing wrong with literacy tests for voters. It's all in how they are administered. For example, in New England the literacy tests were handled with fairness, but they were given in English. If you did not speak English, you could not pass the test. Which come to think of it, wasn't all that bad an idea.
The Republican Party must do something about vote fraud, part of which is last-minute registrations of a highly fraudulent nature. A fair literacy test, administered well before elections, with preparation materials and ample opportunity for do-overs would certainly help give us a more informed and honest electorate.
Doing away with Literacy Testing because it was abused in the Democrat South is a classic case of "Throwing Baby Out with the Bath Water."
Newt’s plan would discriminate against stupid people. That is OK by me.
You'd disenfranchise the military that protects your right to vote?
I was a college junior in 1964 when I first went to register to vote in Alabama. I was given a written test in which sections of the Constitution had to be read and questions about the meaning of what was read had to be answered. There was a failing score.
I’m a white guy and I don’t think I was given an easy test at all.
It disappointed me when this requirement was done away in 1965 by our beloved Congress, since I firmly believe that if one cannot read the English language well he or she cannot follow essential information about an election. That is, unless you think the television networks provide comprehensive information on candidates and their stances.
“No state or federal employee would have the right to vote.” Would employees of companies that sell to state and the federal government be similarly prohibited?
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