why do the republicans in congress reject extending the voting rights act?

Question

this important civil rights act is in trouble of being expired thanks to the republicans in congress. source: watching the congress on c-span.

Answer 1

They are repuglicans, if it don't line their pockets or further their agenda they oppose it. Do not expect much from a repuglican because you will never get much and that is the rule.

Answer 2

Not exactly sure of the reason, saw a little of the debate yesterday on C-Span. If I understood the gist of their argument it was on two things. One is they don't think it is needed anymore. I have not heard of anyone being turned away from voting based on race in my lifetime. They said in the 40 years this law has been in effect it has achieved what it was intended to do.

Also the previsions in the law are too hard for districts to meet. Nationwide, there are few districts that are actually in compliance because it calls for at least 50% of minorities to vote. This falls into the you can lead a horse to water scenario. If 50% of minorities in a district decide they don't want to vote, you really cannot force them. Forcing people to vote would open a whole new can of worms.

Those were the two arguments as I understood them. Personally I think they are just making political statements and they know this bill is going to pass anyway. Watching politics for a while, I have figured out that before a vote happens they know if it will pass, who is voting which way, and how it needs to be arranged so people in their districts will re-elect them. I think this is all for show.

Answer 3

390-33 in favor in the House. That's a lot of Republicans voting for it. The main objections from conservatives were continuing to single out Southern states for extra monitoring and requiring multilingual ballots. In the case of the former, the Southern states are still being punished for their past, while the latter is unnecessary, as any legal voter should at least be able to read "President" "Governor" "Representative", etc. in English. The Act is not in any danger of not being extended.

Answer 4

Every citizen of the U.S.A. is entitled to vote, except convicted felons, and even these (including murderers and rapists) have the vote in some left-wing eastern states, even while they are in prison! In many large cities we have seen left-wing votes submitted, and counted, in the names of dead people and animals, and the crooks that have been caught perpetrating and enabling these crimes have not been prosecuted. How much further do you want to extend voting rights?

By the way, "Liker of min.." (who just wrote in) "gun control", in fact the effort to confiscate legal firearms, is the work of left-wing politicians such as Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, Democrat Senator Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Democrat Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton of New York, not the Republicans. Nagin has not yet returned the legal firearms seized from the citizens of New Orleans after the Katrina flood, despite a federal court order to do so.

Answer 5

I think its mainly the representatives from the southern states. They claim that they're being overly monitored and regulated for "some problems that occurred a long time ago."

For what its worth (nada), those events of the '50s and '60s were not that long ago, and.....I think there is still a lot of hatred out there. Those civil rights laws are still needed. I wish they weren't

Answer 6

Because, it no longer is important.

In fact, it doesn't help anything anymore. The need for it has been long gone, thanks to the efforts of the civil rights movement.

Can you explain why it is still needed? Because, if you're going to argue this, you best produce some facts, not just some mushy language that has no bearing on this Act.

Answer 7

They are looking for modern-day poll taxes and making it harder to vote because they know that statistically, most people of color will not vote republican, therefore, they look for ways to win votes by appealing to the concerns of conservatives in other ways, such as gun control. That way they can slip other legislation in.

Answer 8

If the voting rights act had not been extended, what do you think would have happened?