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    Quote Originally Posted by belleislerunner View Post
    I thought it was odd that U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain in Detroit blocked a State of Michigan law that prohibited straight party voting because it would place a “disproportionate burden” on blacks in the November election. How is that not the most racist thing anyone has heard?

    Do we really think black people can't read down a ballot to the same level as white people?

    http://www.freep.com/story/news/poli...ting/88895656/

    Maybe we should read about the rationale for the decision:

    Detroit U.S. District Court Judge Gershwin Drain ruled last month that the law was likely to place an undue burden on African-American voters, increasing the time it will take them to vote in districts where lines may already be long.

    “In the face of this burden, the state has offered only vague and largely unsupported justifications of fostering voter knowledge and engagement,” Judges Karen Moore, Ronald Lee Gilman and Jane Branstetter Stranch wrote in the ruling.

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    It is no secret that voting patterns are very, very easy to ascertain. One could pick heavily Democratic or Republican precincts very easily.

    So it behooves GOP officials to not make voting easier in heavily urban, Democratic areas.

    Rural = Republican, short voting lines.

    Urban = Democratic, longer voting lines.

    Long voting lines are more likely to be a problem in areas which historically are African-American and heavily Democratic. Easy for folks to get discouraged and not vote.

    How the GOP attempts to steal the election. Sorry, Trump, you got your facts wrong...
    Last edited by emu steve; August-17-16 at 02:12 PM.

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