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To: thecodont

I think that the Voting Rights Act needs to be revised — call it a broadening — to make it applicable throughout the country and to include vote fraud in any election with a federal race on the ballot. That would allow challenges to the entrenched corrupt practices in urban areas like Chicago, Philadelphia, and so on.


138 posted on 11/10/2012 9:15:03 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham
I think that the Voting Rights Act needs to be revised — call it a broadening — to make it applicable throughout the country and to include vote fraud in any election with a federal race on the ballot.

You...and Barry Goldwater.

The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. The Republican candidate for President in 1964, Barry Goldwater, loudly objected to the terms of the act and, in the end, voted against it.

His argument was that all the provisions of the act should apply equally, everywhere -- not just in the states and counties with a "history of discrimination". He noted that the Constitution seemed to demand such an outcome.

But it was passed anyway. And, having voted against it, the Democrats (and their compliant media) labelled Goldwater a racist.

Which is one of the major reasons why blacks are anti-Republican today -- even though the GOP members in the Senate voted 30-2 in favor of the bill (and voted 32-0 for cloture, breaking the Democrat filibuster against the bill).

148 posted on 11/10/2012 10:25:35 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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