Voting Rights Act expires in 2007!

[serryjw]

While collecting sigs today a black women told me about this......I didn't believe her! Before everyone states the 15 amendment there was a reason for the act in the first place (after Florida 2000) I have no reason to believe that the need for the renewal does not still exist. Nothing this administration does including the Tom Delay Congress would surprise me.

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The confusion arises from the apparent assumption that it's the Voting Rights Act alone which guarantees suffrage to minorities. In reality, all the Act does is keep in place a set of so-called "extraordinary remedies" meant to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment at state and local levels, where, in defiance of federal law, obstacles to the voting rights of black people were still in place in some parts of the country as of the early 1960s. These remedies, designed specifically to address problems that existed at the time, were never meant to be permanent, which is why the Voting Rights Act comes up for renewal every 25 years.

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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa120298.htm

[burrowowl]

1. Hai Lai Lai Lai ....

(sarcasm) don't worry, fascism (corporatism) is already here.(sarcasm off)
What!? You think this is a Democratic Republic? Dream on!

[Syrinx]

2. first paragraph on the page linked

False email rumor claims that the right of African Americans to vote is set to expire in 2007 along with the Voting Rights Act of 1965

[serryjw]

6. Nothing false about it.......

It will expire if Congress does not extend it.

CO CALDEM...I am collecting siganatures for 2 state wide ballot initiatives in CO....along with voter registration.

[abbyhoffman]

3. snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/voting.htm

[SoCalDem]

4. collecting sigs for what?

:)

[meg]

5. They've already expired

Didn't you follow the story on the Texas redistricting? I'm very very serious.