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Old 02-27-2013, 08:01 PM   #1
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Old 02-27-2013, 08:33 PM   #2
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Until they extend it to racist Massachusetts it should be struck.

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When Verrilli defended the section 5 of the law, Chief Justice John Roberts asked him, “Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African American voter turnout?”
Verrilli said he did not, to which Roberts replied: “Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi.”


Roberts then asked Verrilli which state has the greatest disparity in registration between whites and African Americans, and again Verrilli did not know.
Again Roberts answered Massachusetts. He added that in Mississippi, “the African American registration rate is higher than the white registration rate.”"
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Until they extend it to racist Massachusetts it should be struck.

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When Verrilli defended the section 5 of the law, Chief Justice John Roberts asked him, “Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African American voter turnout?”
Verrilli said he did not, to which Roberts replied: “Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi.”


Roberts then asked Verrilli which state has the greatest disparity in registration between whites and African Americans, and again Verrilli did not know.
Again Roberts answered Massachusetts. He added that in Mississippi, “the African American registration rate is higher than the white registration rate.”"
So what point are you trying to make? That section 5 should be extended to every state? I agree. Because you just proved it is working very well in Mississippi.

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Old 02-27-2013, 09:35 PM   #4
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I think all of this crap should be abolished quite frankly. The point I am making is that the lawsuit protesting this law is pretty valid, as in it is an arbitrary one that has outlived it's usefulness.
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I think all of this crap should be abolished quite frankly. The point I am making is that the lawsuit protesting this law is pretty valid, as in it is an arbitrary one that has outlived it's usefulness.
You just proved that states where the law is active have high black turnout, whereas states where the law does not have authority have low black turnout. That necessarily means that the law works and should probably be extended to all states. You are proving my point that the law is still effective and necessary.

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Old 02-27-2013, 09:59 PM   #6
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No I am proving that the law is arbitrary and is no longer needed.
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No I am proving that the law is arbitrary and is no longer needed.
Arbitrary? Possibly, but only in one respect: it only has authority in certain states. No longer needed? Definitely not. You proved in states where Section 5 doesn't have authority there is a poor black turnout.

The solution is not to get rid of Section 5 but expand it.
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So I guess you are advocating that every election decision for all states be made by the federal government. Figures.
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I gave up on the article when the writer used "effected" for "affected" twice in the first paragraph. I'm sorry, but I can't take a logical argument seriously when it is presented with such haphazard attention to detail. Let the writer get the little things right, before she can jump into the big kids' pool.
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Old 03-02-2013, 10:34 AM   #10
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Based on the data Roberts was using you can't draw any conclusion one way or the other:

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The number of black citizens eligible to vote in Massachusetts is 236,000, while it is 721,000 in Mississippi, more than three times that number. Therefore, according to Census officials, when looking at the estimated turnout rate in Massachusetts, the voting percentage for African-Americans at first blush is estimated at 39.3 percent. But the margin of error is 11.5 percentage points, meaning that the black voter turnout actually could be as high as 50.8 percent (or, conversely, as low as 27.8 percent).

Now, look at Mississippi, where black turnout is listed at 48.7 percent. But because of the large size of the African-American population that was sampled, the margin of error is only 5.4 percentage points.

That means that factoring in the margin of error, the black turnout rate in Mississippi could be as high as 54.1 percent, or as low as 43.3 percent.

So, if you factor in the margins of error at their extremes — with Mississippi at the low end and Massachusetts at the high end — Mississippi could have had a black voter turnout rate that was 7.5 percentage points lower than Massachusetts.

Bottom line, as Census officials told me, these numbers are simply not reliable for state-by-state comparisons because of the high margins of error in some states.
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Old 03-04-2013, 10:18 AM   #11
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Yea, right. Don't believe your lying eyes.

City/Black Mayor
New York - David Dinkins
LA - Tom Bradley
Chicago - Harold Washington
Dallas - Ron Kirk
Houston - Lee Brown
Philadelphia - Wilson Goode
Washington D.C (sad that this has become so big actually ) - Marion Berry
Miami - None
Atlanta - Maynard Jackson
Boston - None

Now this doesn't mean anything in general, it does say that there is not so much racism in the south that they will not elect a minority if they are qualified. (I guess some would call that a racist statement....sheesh)

But the south is consistently called backwards, racist, etc., etc.,etc. It's all a racket, a con game that needs to stop.
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Not much...just chillin, getting dissed on by liberal bigots.
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Looks like wherever you go you get into the same mess. Damn liberals.
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If by downfall you mean end to the white, male, Christian domination of our political system then yes. Conservatives are super scared of the browning of America and see that in itself as a bad thing for the country.
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If by downfall you mean end to the white, male, Christian domination of our political system then yes. Conservatives are super scared of the browning of America and see that in itself as a bad thing for the country.
More bigotry from the left.
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