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Democrats have made voting rights a top priority since they won control of the House of Representatives in November, and the subcommittee Fudge is chairing is charged with compiling a record of discrimination that can be used to justify a new formula to require certain places to preclear their voting changes. Reinstating the preclearance provision would be a remarkably powerful legislative triumph, because in theory it would block discriminatory voting policies from going into effect. However, such a measure is unlikely to get support from Republicans, who control the Senate.
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During a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) pressed J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department lawyer who has pushed misleading claims of voter fraud, about allegations of voter suppression in Georgia. Adams testified that “it has never been easier to register to vote and to vote in America than it is in 2019,” so Bass wanted to know if those claims of suppression were just made up.
Adams said Brian Kemp, at the time Georgia’s top election official, was acting within the law last year when he didn’t recuse himself from overseeing his own race for governor, and that Kemp was exercising “reasonable list maintenance” when he aggressively removed voters from the state rolls.
“You call it reasonable list maintenance?” Bass said. “I think it’s called voter suppression.”
Finally, Democrats are able to bring attention to the tactics Republicans use to keep minorities from voting.
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Stacey Abrams noted the importance of voting rights in her rebuttal of the SOTU
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/06/stacey-abrams-showed-why-voting-rights-must-be-key-issue-democrats/?utm_term=.f821d534e460
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/06/2019 - 10:31am