Will Other Red States Follow North Carolina’s Targeting Of Student Voters?

[MarkLaw]

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Source: Alternet.org

“So, American citizen, you think you have a right to vote for your federal representatives? Think again. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia just disabused you of that notion—although in a backhanded sort of way,” Frank Askin, a professor of law and director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers School of Law-Newark, wrote this past June in the Newark Star-Ledge r.

Askin was not referring to the Voting Rights Act ruling, which threw out the formula by which the U.S. Justice Department could overrule discriminatory changes in voting laws or practices. Instead, he’s referring to another ruling that supports the GOP’s ability to go ahead and decide—state-by-state—who is and isn’t a legal voter.

This means that seemingly local decisions, such as two North Carolina election boards targeting students, are the tip of a very large new legal iceberg, with state and local Republicans knowing the Supreme Court has their back. That is so because Scalia, writing the opinion in an Arizona case over its requirement that new voters present citizenship documents, said that states—not Congress—decide who can vote.

“In the 2000 case of Bush vs. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court reminded us that Americans did not even have a constitutional right to vote for their president,” Askin wrote. “That right is subject to the will of state legislatures, which, under the Constitution, could themselves appoint presidential electors. The only protections the Constitution presently provides for voting are those forbidding discrimination on the basis of race (15th Amendment), sex (19th) and age (26th).”

Read more: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/will-other-red-states-follow-north-carolinas-targeting-student-voters

[Iliyah]

1. Gopers, i.e., ALEC, et al.,

already doing so. . . .

[MarkLaw]

2. Students burdened with thousands$ in student loans are same as Poor.

This is an attempt to censor and legitimize poor and people who will most likely align with Liberal ideologies.

There is NOTHING DEMOCRATIC ABOUT THIS MOVE BY CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING GROUPS

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yes. Bet on it

[hrmjustin]

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