Justice Department to monitor South Carolina congressional election

Reuters ^ | 6 May 2013 | Ian Simpson and Harriet McLeod

[mandaladon]

(Reuters) - The Justice Department will monitor voting in Charleston County, South Carolina, in Tuesday's special election to fill a House of Representatives seat, the department said on Monday.

Former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford is facing Democratic newcomer Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of television political satirist Stephen Colbert, in the First District House race.

The Justice Department said in a statement it was monitoring the election under provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The law bars election discrimination on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group.

The department did not give a reason for the monitoring. Tuesday's vote will take place under South Carolina's new law mandating photo identification for voters, and Justice Department monitors observed primary elections.

The First District seat became vacant when Representative Tim Scott was appointed by Governor Nikki Haley to replace Senator Jim DeMint. He had resigned to head the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

[ncpatriot]

uh-oh

[bert]

Intimidation by black tyrants is the reason for the action.

Vindictive control is the watchword of the Whitehouse

[Moose4]

Because it’s South Carolina, and dem crackers is rayciss.

Most of the South still can’t even sneeze within 50 feet of a poll without getting Justice Department approval thanks to the Voting Rights Act, and that keeps getting indefinitely extended by Congress. I guess the racism still hasn’t shifted far enough in favor of black people yet, and the Feds won’t get their boot off the South’s neck until it does.

}:-)4

[H.Akston]

Today, in Cleveland Ohio, something was “wrong”, for a white girl to run into a black man’s arms. Yet the south is raysiss enough to need this. Yankee/Union sanctimony never dies. If you live in a nation, you won the Wah. If you live in a state, with a limited federal government, you lost.