Appeals court affirms minority voting rights law
Source: Reuters
By Terry Baynes
Fri May 18, 2012 1:34pm EDT
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the landmark U.S. voting rights law aimed at protecting minorities in states and local areas with a history of racial discrimination.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a 2-1 decision said Congress did not exceed its power by renewing a requirement that nine states, mostly in the South, and dozens of local governments with a history of racial discrimination get federal permission to change their election procedures.
That was part of the Voting Rights Act, a major piece of civil rights legislation enacted in 1965, that Congress renewed in 2006.
Two members of the three-judge panel found that substantial evidence of recent voting discrimination in the legislative record justified the law's extension into the 21st Century.
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It seems he thinks that this would create a majority of (within) that minority, and that's not good. Better somehow; to let a minority view dominate amongst their voters.
--imm
