Minority vote protections still needed
Government, Politics, State Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Minority vote protections still needed in South, Obama tells regional reporters
WASHINGTON – The part of the 44-year-old Voting Rights Act that requires states such as Alabama to get federal permission before making election-related changes is still a necessary protection for minority voters, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
Obama, rebutting a sentiment in some Southern states that they no longer need Justice Department supervision, said the scrutiny remains important in places where blacks and whites and Hispanics are especially polarized in their voting patterns. The threat to minorities may no longer be as overtly discriminatory as refusing to register blacks to vote, he said, but may be that they won’t have a real chance to elect their candidate of choice.
"There are probably some parts of the South that … if you looked at the data, are no longer that polarized. There are other parts that are probably still very polarized," Obama said in an interview with 15 reporters from around the country, including The Birmingham News
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on Mar 12 2009. Filed under Government, Politics, State.
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