Voting method still can to ensure that the rights of editor of the Inquirer

Elections, sometimes seemed destined to be destroyed blatant attempt to suppress voter-ID laws and other equipment, the landmark Voting Rights Act, 1965, is a minority shareholder vote under a legal microscope.
Cynical person might see a conspiracy of right-wing Supreme Court decision just a few days after U.S.

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign to re-examine the constitutionality of the law. The Court agreed to hear the county, Alabama, to lead to the provisions of the law, the the certain constituencies space in front of the Ministry of Justice, a challenge to change the electoral rules or procedures.

However, there is good reason for this. The congressional approval voting rights to take action to put an end to the officials of the whole or part of the history of discrimination of the 16 states revoke granted the right to vote, let ethnic minority voters in minority groups, or draw a selection inconvenient place, through a variety of tactics, such as the dilution of their own strength.

Critics say the legal relics of the era of Jim Crow, the country's sovereign right to step. They say the law invalid, since 1965, in the progress of race relations in the South. A point of the law's opponents say the south of Bulls Connor and church bombings are long gone, but that does not mean that the voters have always treated equally.

In some countries, including Pennsylvania, it is trying to use the ID law that federal oversight is still the best tool, in many cases, to frustrate the attempt to suppress the vote in the Election Day, the Republican government has recently made efforts to stop the ethnic minorities.

In fact, the Ministry of Justice of the Voting Rights Act, successfully prevent restrictive voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas, which may make many minority voters to exercise their rights in the last election. The purpose of the statement of voter-ID laws in polling locations in order to prevent fraud. But their supporters have not provided any evidence that voters simulated problem anywhere.

Congress has repeatedly extended, most recently in the 2006 Voting Rights Act, to extend the clearance requirements of up to 25 years. Three years ago, the court decided to leave the gap by a 8-1 margin in the case of another part of the full, but the judge also said the number of days.

View of the implication, Congress did not attempt to resolve the complaint, should be updated in accordance with the law, and therefore no longer need any jurisdiction, can show a strong federal oversight possible way, which is too bad. In contrast, the U.S. Congress has left opponents of the law to open this new challenge.

For some time, the court has the laws and policies of the civil rights era, this feeling should signal a lack of patience is near the end of its shelf life. The Court decided in 2003 Brin, it is recommended that affirmative action should be completed in 25 years of life. The court may be correct. But as the 2012 election results show that to achieve it is still a goal, rather than achievement.