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16. It's been very effective for that.

And a major motive behind all the ubiquitous violations of the Voting RIghts Act that nobody seems to be able to anything about for some reason, and a great source of blackmail material for prosecutors and cops trying to puff up their careers by "convicting" the guilty through quick, easy plea bargains. And it is and always has been a fountain of corruption inside politics and out, not unlike it's predecessor Prohibition, which it replaced in the hearts of all those "law-enforcement" officers who missed the easy money and free hand from those days when the public threw that out for being too stupid to proceed with. Too.

And most of the cowardly reptiles that inhabit the Congress went along with it all and cheered it on, and still would be too if they were not being outvoted at the ballot box by the states again, one by one.