Georgia Challenges Voting Rights Act (Again)

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ATLANTA — Georgia is challenging the constitutionality of a clause in the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act. The challenge is part of a lawsuit filed last week that seeks approval for Georgia’s new redistricting maps.

Under the Act, the state can’t eliminate districts where minorities comprise more than 50 percent of the population.

Georgia is one of nine states that also must receive so-called “pre-clearance” from the federal government for any election map changes.

State Attorney General Sam Olens says the 1960’s provision no longer makes sense because it remedies bygone racial inequalities . . . But Atlanta Democrat Stacey Abrams says the state still discriminates against minority voters.


read more: http://www.gpb.org/news/2011/10/13/georgia-challenges-voting-rights-act

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1. Yeah, the old law remedies bygone racial inequalities, whereas the state is now ...

perpetrating brand new racial inequalities.

Sorry, Georgia: FAIL!

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2. exactly

. . . here's the state attorney accommodating the political branch concerned with drawing up the redistricting maps. Is this even constitutional?