Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act is still intact. And GOP is helping by giving DOJ the evidence

[Tx4obama]

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June saw the gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court collaterally attacked Section 5 of the VRA, which requires preclearance of voting and elections laws by states such as Texas, by striking down Section 4. By declaring Section 4 unconstitutional, the Court made it impossible to apply the Section 5 preclearance requirement.

Initial reaction focused on the presumptive death of the VRA and the almost certain enactment and implementation of discriminatory voting laws, yet much of that initial analysis neglected Section 3 of the VRA.

On Tuesday, Sahil Kapur wrote in TalkingPointsMemo that Texas and other states could still be subjected to preclearance requirements, despite the Court's June ruling.

"Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act lets courts add a state or local government to the preclearance requirement if it is found to have enacted intentionally discriminatory voting measures. The Supreme Court left that part of the Voting Rights Act intact; it invalidated Section 4, which includes the formula that Congress established to determine which state and local governments are to face that extra scrutiny automatically."

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Full article here: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13777/experts-texas-possibly-subject-to-preclearance-under-voting-rights-act-suits-filed

Pennsylvania

July 19, 2013

GOP Official Admits Voter ID Law Hurt Obama

Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason admitted on PCN that the state's voter ID law limited President Obama's margin of victory in last year's presidential election.

Said Gleason: "Yeah, I think a little bit. We probably had a better election. Think about this, we cut Obama by five percent, which was big. A lot of people lost sight of that. He won, he beat McCain by 10 percent, he only beat Romney by five percent. I think that probably voter ID helped a bit in that."

Article and VIDEO here: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/07/19/gop_official_admits_voter_id_law_hurt_obama.html

North Carolina

Two Ways North Carolina Republicans Plan To Keep College Students From Voting

Two months after the Republican-led North Carolina House approved a voter ID bill, a common tactic used to reduce turnout among low-income, student and minority voters, Republicans in the state senate, however, apparently believe this bill does not go far enough in making it difficult for college students, who tend to vote for Democrats, to cast a ballot. According to the Charlotte Observer, senate Republicans plan to eliminate half of the forms of ID a person can show in order to cast a ballot under the house bill — including “cards from UNC system colleges state community colleges.”

This is at least the second proposal by Republicans in the state that would move the electorate rightward by making it harder for college students to vote. In April, State Rep. Bill Cook (R-NC) introduced a bill that would raise taxes on families with college students if their child registered to vote in the town where they attend school rather than the town where their parents live. In other words, the bill would discourage college students from registering to vote in the community where they actually live and spend the majority of their time by imposing a financial penalty on their family if they do so.

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/19/2328311/two-ways-north-carolina-republicans-plan-to-keep-college-students-from-voting/

Anyone see any more?

[Tx4obama]

1. Bumping this up, because the first excerpt in the OP is an important one that all should see :) n/t

[Cha]

2. Thankfully Voter ID didn't "hurt Obama", enough, Tx!

thank you for this.. looks like there's still some recourse.

[Tx4obama]

3. Bump :)

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R