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House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act

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Posted on Jun 22, 2006

House Republicans canceled a vote to extend the historic act because some said it unfairly singled out Southern states. The “rebellion” was “a significant embarrassment for the party leadership,” according to the N.Y. Times.

N.Y. Times:

WASHINGTON, June 20 — House Republican leaders today abruptly canceled a planned vote to renew the Voting Rights Act after a rank-and-file rebellion by lawmakers who say the civil rights measure unfairly singles out Southern states and promotes multi-lingual ballots.

The reversal represented a significant embarrassment for the party leadership, which has promised a vote on the landmark anti-discrimination law and hailed its imminent approval in a rare bipartisan press event on the steps of the Capitol last month.

But lawmakers critical of the bill mutinied in a closed meeting of House Republicans this morning just hours before the vote was expected to occur and several said it was uncertain whether a majority of Republicans would back the legislation at this point.

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By Slin_aaldef, July 12, 2006 at 9:18 am #
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The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), just released a report on the critical and continuing need for voter language assistance under the Voting Rights Act.  Basically, it reviews decades of VRA coverage,and finds that langauge assistance promotes voter turnout and representation, while violations of VRA language assistance illegally supresses minority voting. 
It’s online at:
http://www.aaldef.org/docs/AALDEF-VRAReauthorization-2 006.pdf.

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By felicity smith, June 22, 2006 at 11:41 am #
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Hmmm.  No Voting Rights Act?  Literacy tests again?  Since the South has an abysmal literacy rate - black and white - the South may have just lost its political clout.  (Not a bad idea since the South includes Texass and Flopida.) No Voting Rights Act means no federal oversight of state administered voting regulations.  If Rethugs can’t win by hook, they’re now free to try crook. Passed in ‘64, and renewed by every congress since, the VRA has become yet another victim of a congress hell-bent on destroying our Republic.

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