BBV: Does HAVA Violate 15th Amendment?

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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-17-04 07:46 AM
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Part of Voting Rights Act expires in 2007
Kudos to an unknown caller on Ray Taliaferro's show on KGO this morning for pointing this out. Yet another reason not to have Chimpy in the Oval Office come 2007.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/sec_5/about.htm
... Although the voting protections of the Fifteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act are permanent, Section 5 remains in effect through 2007.
Under Section 5, any change with respect to voting in a covered jurisdiction -- or any political subunit within it -- cannot legally be enforced unless and until the jurisdiction first obtains preclearance. Section 5 provides that preclearance may be obtained only from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, or from the United States Attorney General. Preclearance requires proof that the proposed voting change does not deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group. If the jurisdiction is unable to prove the absence of such discrimination, the District Court denies preclearance, or in the case of administrative submissions, the Attorney General objects to the change, and it remains legally unenforceable.

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