Gotcher Post-Racial Administration Right Here
Doctor Atty Gen Demento
KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party…
[the Justice Dept. said that] partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their “candidates of choice” - identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.
The department ruled that white voters in Kinston will vote for blacks only if they are Democrats and that therefore the city cannot get rid of party affiliations for local elections because that would violate black voters’ right to elect the candidates they want.
Aside from being frankly raaaaacist, that don’t even make sense.
“... partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their “candidates of choice” - identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black. “
I told somebody else that it’s a bit odd that they think the voters can’t choose their candidates by name.
A long time ago, voting machines had two additional levers, one for Dem, one for Repub, so you could just vote the straight party ticket. (That was real handy in places like Chicago and San Francisco.)
We could go back to that idea, by having two big buttons, one black, marked “Democrat” and one white, marked “Republican”.
But the big question is, why are the Feds messing around in a local election?
(Yeah, yeah, I know: “I won”.)
Posted by ZZMike on 10/22/09 at 08:07 AM
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