Justice Department returns to enforcing voter laws

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers




Justice Department returns to enforcing voter laws
Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: November 09, 2007 12:24:07 PM

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is reversing course and has begun taking steps to enforce a 1993 law that's intended to make it easier for poor minorities to register to vote.

The division, which has come under attack for allegedly pursuing policies aimed at suppressing the votes of Democratic-leaning minorities, has demanded that 18 states provide evidence that they're complying with the National Voter Registration Act.

If it is fully pursued, this new action will represent the first significant return to traditional enforcement of voting-rights laws since a scandal erupted earlier this year over the alleged politicization of the Justice Department.

McClatchy Newspapers disclosed last spring that the Civil Rights Division had failed to enforce a variety of voting-rights laws intended to protect the ability of minorities, especially African-Americans, to vote. The controversy led to the resignations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and seven other officials, including Bradley Schlozman, the former acting civil rights chief.

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1. Hmm. My cynical self tells me they're making it LOOK like they're enforcing these laws, but

are actually intending to perpetuate the problem.