Bill Maher To Panel: ‘Maybe The Voting Rights Act Is Not Helping Minorities’

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-to-panel-maybe-the-voting-rights-act-is-not-helping-minorities/


Bill Maher tonight took a surprising stand against the Voting Rights Act. He argued that rather than helping minorities, the Voting Rights Act might actually be hurting the country if it continues redistricting that, as a side effect, allows “crazy right-winger Republicans” to get elected to Congress. Maher was challenged by panelist Gavin Newsom, who argued that there is still a lot of racial resentment and antipathy in the United States, and minority groups still need the protections provided by the Voting Rights Act. -snip-

[pansypoo53219]

1. the right answer is no gerrymandering.

[markpkessinger]

2. The gerrymandering problem doesn't arise from the Voting Rights Act . . .

. . . but rather from the fact that the Constitution requires Congressional districts to be redrawn in response to the once-per-decade census, and leave the authority for doing so in the hands of the states. Somebody should educate Maher on this point.

[radiclib]

3. The right answer is Section 5 for all 50 states.