My successors at the
Mobile Register agree with my earlier post and a post by Dave Holman about a
provision of the Voting Rights Act that, in contrast to the
excellent rest of the act, really ought to be jettisoned. The
Register adds a few facts I didn't know and haven't earlier
reported. And one point I also did not make is that the sheer
expense, in man-hours and paper and rigmarole, of the provision, at
both the state and federal levels, is highly burdensome. Here's
hoping Congress gets the Register's message.