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Related: About this forumThis is what happened in NC after they gutted Voting Rights Act.
The North Carolina voters featured in these five new videos would beg to differ. Each of them was denied the right to vote in 2014 after North Carolina lawmakers rewrote state election laws and passed H.B. 589. The law disproportionately burdens students, communities of color, and elderly voters by shortening early voting by a week, eliminating same-day registration, gutting pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, invalidating votes cast out of precinct, and implementing a strict voter ID requirement.
The North Carolina law was passed less than two months after the Supreme Courts ruling, which prevented the U.S. Department of Justice from reviewing and preventing discriminatory state and local election laws and practices before they take effect. Over in Texas, then-Attorney General Greg Abbott announced immediately after the Shelby decision that the states strict voter ID law would be implemented. And as lawsuits challenging the laws in North Carolina and Texas play out in federal court, report after report has documented persistent voting discrimination across the country. The laws are cloaked in concerns of voter fraud, but the only fraud being committed as the voters below know too well is the passage of these restrictive measures.
https://medium.com/@civilrightsorg/need-proof-of-voting-discrimination-watch-these-videos-of-n-c-voters-denied-the-right-to-vote-81cd104c7c9c#.dvngk1g3l
(You have to cut and paste the link, I can never get Medium liks to work here)
There are many good videos posted at the link. Here is one that focuses on student disenfranchisement, since that is topic du jour around here right now.
And one about the intention shortening of the early vote period specifically targeted at undermining "Souls to the Polls".
We would be having problems here due to losing the 2010 election and, as a result, the redistricting fight, but it would be no where near as bad if section 5 of the VRA was still in effect.
This is why Democrats must appoint the next Supreme Court justice and why we must #RestoretheVRA
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)difference between HRC and GOP so if Cruz is president I am CERTAIN he will insist his GOP House fix the law and make it strong again.
At least that is what I am told here at Democratic Underground, over and over again.
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)And notice I only posted this here. I really should put it up in GD too, but I don't have the patience for any of the open forums right now. I posted something else in LBN the other day and decided that it was basically pointless until after the primary is officially whistled dead and the ban hammer is dropped on the worst offenders.
Number23
(24,544 posts)We all need to see what's going on and what happens to minorities when their rights are eroded. Not that I suspect that will do a damn thing to the ignorant hordes here on DU that keep screaming that black people have a "slave/master" voting mentality or are "conservatives."
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)I would hate to remind them exactly what did happen not that long ago, might upset them and cause problems.
We wouldn't want that.
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)hurting young Sanders voters. But these laws were not formulated to disenfranchise students, particularly. That is just a twofer. Students trend liberal and Democratic, but not in anywhere near the percentages that blacks do. The GOP makes these laws to target black citizens because they vote in such overwhelming percentages for Democrats. And yet many here seem to have it turned around in their heads the the DNC is behind this to "get" Sanders voters
I also like that these are narrative explanations. It is not all statistics and facts. You can actually see the voters who are affected. I am hoping that now young white voters will also see the importance of restoring VRA since they have now experienced the bitter unfairness of disenfranchisement themselves.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)The gutting of the Voting Rights Act is one of the SCOTUS opinions by Jim Crow Roberts.