Republicans slow Voting Rights Act renewal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060629/pl_nm/congress_rights_dc

Sort of looks to me like they would like to cancel it entirely, but haven't figured out a way to cover their actions yet.

this shows you can take off the elephant mask from a repuke and find that they are wearing a white hood underneath.....

Without the civil rights act, states can put tests and fees on the right to vote. True it will be illegal, but by the time poor minorities take it to court the election will be over. The civil rights act puts teeth into enforcement of the right of to vote.

Did you know where the term grandfather as in "grandfathering a law" came from? After the civil war when former slaves were allowed to vote, some states passed a law that stated you could not vote unless you could recite the entire preamble to the constitution by heart, no aids, strictly from memory. The problems was most former slaves could not read or write. Yet many whites couldn't recite the document either (even if they could read). So the law said that if your grandfather had voted before, you could vote without reciting the document. Thus the originations of the term.

Stand by for laws like this to pass again.