Nonpartisan Elections vs. The DOJ

[DaShi]

"Republican" has become such a bad word now that they don't even want people know that they are running as one.

[Felch]

No, she's implying that absent party affiliation, elections in certain pissant Southern localities would fall largely entirely under racial rather than ideological lines. Which would decrease the likelyhood of black politicians being elected where black people are a minority of voters.

The town is 66% black by population, and 64% black in terms of registered voters. The only thing that makes them a minority is non-participation. People don't deserve special rights just because they refuse to vote. And even if they did, mandating partisan elections does nothing to benefit them.

[Ramo]

1. If the goal is to promote larger numbers of under-represented minority office holders, the only statistic at issue is the proportion of voters. Not registered voters.
2. I already stated that this kind of policy is counter-productive to the interests of people ostensibly being helped in that very post. But it is true that if this part of the VRA were changed, the number of black members of Congress would drop significantly. The House would look more like the Senate.

[Ben Kenobi]

2. I already stated that this kind of policy is counter-productive to the interests of people ostensibly being helped in that very post. But it is true that if this part of the VRA were changed, the number of black members of Congress would drop significantly. The House would look more like the Senate.

Are you saying that black members of congress can't win unless they have a (D) beside their name?

[Ramo]

You'll have to revise that post to make it substantially less idiotic before I would respond to its substance.