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babylonsister

(171,034 posts) Wed Jun 27, 2012, 07:57 AM Jun 2012

Texas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965 [View all]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/26/506363/texas-gop-voting-rights-act/

Texas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965 |

The Republican Party of Texas released its platform this month, calling on Congress to repeal the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. “We urge that the Voter {sic} Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized,” the platform reads. Texas is one of nine states with a history of racial discrimination that must get clearance from the Department of Justice before altering its voting laws.

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Texas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965 [View all] babylonsister Jun 2012 OP

Good! Scootaloo Jun 2012 #1

They don't harm themselves clang1 Jun 2012 #10

Next up malaise Jun 2012 #2

Not a joke. Check some Reps position on 14th Amend. longship Jun 2012 #3

So when do people plan to rise up and lock up these treasonous malaise Jun 2012 #5

First, this country has to be informed. longship Jun 2012 #11

How anyone can vote for this party is beyond me justiceischeap Jun 2012 #4

How Un-democratic. emulatorloo Jun 2012 #6

I want to give the GOP party the benefit of doubt Iliyah Jun 2012 #7

I am amazed that you still doubt them n/t clang1 Jun 2012 #9

Lawyers WILL NOT fix this problem, the problem is NOT clang1 Jun 2012 #8

The people that POISON our Democracy clang1 Jun 2012 #12

At least they restrained themselves from support for reinstituting slavery CanonRay Jun 2012 #13

Read the whole platform. This isn't all they wish to do away with. MustBeTheBooz Jun 2012 #14

OF COURSE clang1 Jun 2012 #15

And this is why state rights Smilo Jun 2012 #16