Duffy wrote:
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blacks were more enfranchised in 1868 than they are today.
Where in this country are black people not allowed to vote?
what's happening to black people at the ballot box is analogous to what's happening to pregnant women who seek abortions. you just make it so hard to obtain that it's technically legal but practically unavailable.
since the SCOTUS struck down the voting rights act, about 1000 voting precincts have been closed, mostly in black areas. if you look a the - what - 800 counties (?) that were affected by section V of the voting rights act, the rate of precinct closure has been very high.
so, what to these folks do? they vote early. i don't know if you noticed, but early voting has more and more favored democrats. in north carolina, 70 percent of blacks voted early. so what did north carolina do about that? reduced early voting. of course! same thing in ohio, florida, texas.
you're not a stupid guy. you're smart enough to have earned a great wife and a great surfboard. you and i probably agree on 90 percent of stuff, value by value, issue by issue. but there's a concerted attempt by republican held legislatures to gerrymander and to suppress votes from the other side. no, not
all precinct closures are for political gain. yes,
some democrats are the willing recipients of gerrymandered districts. but the basic reason i moved toward caucusing with the other side has nothing to do with policy; and everything to do with basic fairness and decency.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman