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sonias

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6. Kennedy scares me as the swing vote

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 08:01 PM

Dec 2011

I'm very scared of the redistricting case they took in Texas as well as these constant challenges to the constitutionality of the VRA. The right wing is constantly trying to pick it off. And the Texas voter photo ID case will be the biggest challenge. If it falls here there will be no protection for any class of voter. And frankly there have not been the kind of changes to make this protection obsolete. In fact things seem to be getting worse again.

It will be a very horrible tragedy that a voter protection law that was essentially begun by a Kennedy would die by the hand of another Kennedy.

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