Oops! DOJ Says South Carolina Voter ID Law Discriminates
Evidently Eric Holder was not just speechifying when he said the Department of Justice would be looking at Voter ID laws. Last week, South Carolina's draconian and racist Voter ID law discriminates against minority voters.
Via the Washington Post:
In its first decision on the laws, Justice’s Civil Rights Division said South Carolina’s statute is discriminatory because its registered minority voters are nearly 20 percent more likely than whites to lack a state-issued photo ID. Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, South Carolina is one of a number of states that are required to receive federal “pre-clearance” on voting changes to ensure that they don’t hurt minorities’ political power.
“The absolute number of minority citizens whose exercise of the franchise could be adversely affected by the proposed requirements runs into the tens of thousands,” Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said in a letter to South Carolina officials.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) called the decision “outrageous” and said she plans to seek “every possible option to get this terrible, clearly political decision overturned so we can protect the integrity of our electoral process and our 10th Amendment rights.”
Awww, Nikki haz a sad. That's too bad, but the South Carolina laws were incredibly draconian, and even when they were challenged, the data they provided to the DOJ excluded over 200,000 voters.
Republican motto: If you can't win elections, steal them.
I would suggest thumb prints as the ultimate identifier, but until we can prevent hacking, I wouldn't trust the verification system.
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trash traitors fire on Fort Sumter again - let's practice a little "preemptive war" in a good cause for a change, start carpet bombing all major population centers in South Carolina and don't stop until those crackers take the confederate flag off of their statehouse.
We can finally bring "freedom and democracy" to someone.
Just let them secede. Force them to secede. Kick them out. Let them take Texas ans Alabama and Georgia with them.
Cheney logic - if there's a 1% chance that they will attack Fort Sumter (they have a proven record of doing such things in the past) then we (American forces) must carry out a preemptive strike on them. Anything less would be irresponsible - right cheney?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I find it so telling that the Republicans try to win election more through trying to make it impossible for people to vote who they think will vote against them as they do with issues. It is how George W. Bush won Florida. They disenfranchised enough African American voters that they made the results close enough for the Supreme Court to give the election to Bush. if those African American voters were not disenfranchised the election would not have been close enough to have a shitty recount. but you know that. There should be a law.
she plans to seek “every possible option to get this terrible, clearly political decision overturned so we can
protect the integrity of our electoral processresurrect Jim Crow and the Antebellum South."We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
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Well, well, how about that. Way to go South Carolina. Could Gov. Nikki Haley (R) possibly be a bit of a minority hurter? Doing the kind of thing racists would do - racist is as racist does... But not in America baby - not any more.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"...Haley (R) called the decision “outrageous” and said she plans to seek “every possible option to get this terrible, clearly political decision overturned..."
Eff yourself Haley, when you drooling fucknuckles made the decision to put forth this piece of legislation I'm sure politics had zero to do with it. Effing Repukes, they can dish it out but never, ever, ever can they take it.
Generally speaking I don't trust anyone making over 150K a year.
It's South Kar-a-line-uhh' ya' all!
Everyone I have met from South Carolina has been an ignorant redneck bigot, or a complete fascist fuckwit.
Now, I know there have to be some good folks in that state somewhere, but I am like 0 for 20 in my personal interactions and getting pretty stereotypical in my thinking with regards to the Palmetto state inhabitants.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
This is one of the first times that a State's Leadership claims 10th Amendment Rights as a push back for the civil rights act. See the southern states have to have the DOJ approve of their redistricting. (Whispers: because they are racist.)
That said, the Governor of NC isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. She seems to step in it over and over again and will most likely be caught having sex with another man/woman, or having sex for money.
"Evidently Eric Holder was not just speechifying when he said the Department of Justice would be looking at Voter ID laws."
This is real stuff and must go further... The only voter fraud is via the Republican party...
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