By Edward Blum
The booklet spotlight the real-world outcomes of the alterations to part five of the balloting Rights Act. Edward Blum attracts on public documents, press money owed, and vast own interviews with country and native officers to bare the transformation of the VRA from a legislations maintaining balloting rights to a gerrymandering instrument used to additional the electoral customers of incumbent politicians of all races.
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Coupled with other provisions, such as one that sent federal registrars to add eligible blacks to the voting rolls, the banning of literacy tests in these covered jurisdictions was the single most important feature of the 1965 act. Section 5 In the original 1965 statute, Section 5—widely known as the “preclearance” provision—was considered little more than an oversight mechanism to enforce the prohibition on literacy tests and other registration devices in the APPENDIX 49 newly covered jurisdictions.
Black Democrats don’t want to appear retrograde; whites don’t have the courage to stand up and try to fix it without blacks standing alongside them; and Republicans like the 46 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF SECTION 5 outcome that they’re getting, which enables them to have perpetually lily-white suburban southern districts. And then there’s so much animus—not between the parties, but between white Democrats and black Democrats, in lots of parts of the South. So any effort to “fix” the thing is a nonstarter.
18 **** Like drawing congressional districts, the job of creating competitive districts for Arizona’s own state legislature while complying with the requirements of the Voting Rights Act proved virtually impossible. Even though the congressional plan produced only one competitive district out of eight, it was configured in a way that allowed for the creation of a second Hispanic majority-minority district, since Arizona had been reapportioned two new congressional seats after the 2000 census. 20 Once again, Prop 106’s requirement to create competitive SAFE-SEATS-FOR-LIFE IN ARIZONA 25 districts collided with the minority protection provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
