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If the nation needed further proof that Senate Republican minorities were bowing to the Jan.6 crowd, it was their refusal to adopt uniform federal standards for ballot access, the sole purpose of the law. For the people now before Congress.
While rushing to be seen supporting the symbolic proclamation of the June 17 holiday, the hypocrisy of the GOP has once again reached the unimaginable by rejecting the very core of what June 19 stands for. It would be a Texan who in 1965 signed the suffrage legislation that ultimately fulfilled the promise embodied in Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
A century later, President Lyndon Johnson finally guaranteed the right to vote at the federal level to the patient descendants of enslaved African Americans freed by the Civil War. But the racist elements that raged in the 1960s returned in the form of radical legislative majorities of Republican states, all determined to impose obstructive restrictions on those same African-American voters: reduced voting times, reduced drop-off locations, reduced use. postal ballots and scandalous surveillance. powers granted to local officials who can now refuse to certify (at will) the legitimate and final counting of the ballot.
These GOP measures are mainly made possible, as in our own state of Michigan, by drastically gerrymandered districts that have reversed the ratio of political representation (when total results are counted) to favor the party not receiving the actual electoral majority. statewide. It is the old principle that politicians choose voters instead of the other way around.
The only way to prevent these abuses at the state level is to pass a federal law that every state must recognize; and thus restore the right of every citizen to vote without partisan or racist interference.
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