WSJ on Voting Wrongs - The American Spectator

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WSJ on Voting Wrongs

by Quin Hillyer

June 12, 2006, 3:38 PM

I’ve blogged on this before, but the Wall Street Journal today did a better job of it in many respects than I did in my blogs: The Journal said Congress would be dead stinking wrong to renew Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act this year. Read the Journal editorial to see why. Hint: The section itself is racist, and it’s an incumbent-protection device.

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