Judge Rules Nonpartisan Elections Are Illegal Racial Discrimmination

A Federal Judge has ruled in favor of a claim that the move to make local elections nonpartisan in Kinston, NC discrimminates against black voters who would not know which candidates are Democrats without doing some research on the candidates on their own.

In an example of how useless establishment Republicans are, the move to nonpartisan elections initially barred by the Justice Deparment in 2008 when it was headed by Michael Mukasey during the Presidency of George W. Bush.  That’s right, a ‘Republican’ Attorney General blocked a law because he thought it might make it harder for blacks to vote straight party line Democrat.

The Justice Department was given power to block state and local laws affecting elections in most southern juridictions under Section 5 of the 1965 ‘Voting Rights Act’.  Although both the Democratic and Republican party leadership support the continued existence of the law, many experts view the law as outdated.  “When it comes to questions of federalism, there may not be a bigger intrusion into state sovereignty than the Voting Rights Act,” according to The John Locke Foundation, a conservative North Carolina think tank, “There’s simply no basis for requiring certain jurisdictions to get pre-approval of voting procedures more than 45 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed.”

The fact that the law is now considered by Judges to mandate that laws be draw in a way to make it easier for Democrats to win election proves that whatever the initial intentions of the law, in modern times it acts only in a purely partisan manner to give one party, the Democrats, an edge over other parties and independent challengers.  For clueless establishment politicians which aren’t part of the far left to continue to support this law is not only morally wrong but eventual political suicide.

The law, including Section 5, was renewed in 2006.  Of the Presidential candidates, incumbent Barack Obama voted in favor of the 2006 renewal, as did Republican Rick Santorum, while Republican Ron Paul voted against it.  The other Republican candidates were not in Congress at the time.  The law also mandates multilingual ballots and racial gerrymandering of Congressional districts.

Of other notables, Youth for Western Civilization Honorary Chairman Tom Tancredo voted against the wholesale renewal, as did current Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.  The current Vice President and Secretary of State, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, voted to renew this law.

2012-10-28 23:46:55

Source: http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/judge-rules-nonpartisan-elections-are-illegal-racial-discrimmination/