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Originally Posted by loquitur
As far as Republicans going after blacks because they are Democrats, can we agree that if black voting patterns went majority Republican, the practices you're complaining about wouldn't be happening? And if that's the case, then what the GOP operatives are doing is not tied to the fact that the voters are black but to the fact that they tend Democrat. If they were black and tended Republican this wouldn't happen. So it's not racial discrimination at all.
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I agree that they are targeting the because they vote democratic. I however, think that it is still racial discrimination.
My problem with all of this is that it is applied selectively in a targeted manner in order to disenfranchise a certain type of voter.
Lets say we have 2 groups that want to vote.
Group A) goes to vote, there is no line because there are plenty of voting machines, they vote in 10 minutes and are back at work.
Group B) goes to vote, there is an 8 hour line because they only have 2 working voting machines, they have to take a day off work, they get to the front of the line and there is someone there saying they cannot vote and in order for them to vote they have to take another day off work to prove they can vote.
Tell me was this vote fair? Will the results of this vote truly represent the will of the people? Democracy is about the will of the people, not the will of the "right" people. When we start trying to exclude legal voters we have a problem.
Back to the foreclosure issue, do homeless people have a right to vote?