Talk:Grace Napolitano
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Gerrymandering is not a requirement of the Voting Rights Act
Voting Rights Act - Reality:
Voting Rights act prevents redrawing of a voting district’s boundaries so as to change the strength of the minority vote. Furthermore, improper racial gerrymandering involves intentionally excluding minority voters or redrawing the boundaries so as to dilute the strength of the minority vote.
violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection requirement.
Voting Rights Act - Delusions:
"The Voting Rights Act requires districts to be created to increase minority representation"
This violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection requirement. Unless there is a strong reason ("compelling governmental interest"), States are forbidden to separate citizens into different voting districts by race just as they may not racially segregate public parks.
"Classifications of citizens solely on the basis of race 'are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." "corralling minorities into separate voting districts threatens to carry us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters" Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor - http://www.crf-usa.org/brown50th/race_representation.htm
- No, the VRA encourages districts in a state to be more racially representative. While it prohibits "packing" of districts, it doesn't discourage districts from being drawn to enhance minority representation. Notwithstanding your quote from Sandra Day O'Connor, my source from the Almanac of American Politics (a National Journal publication, so not free on the web) meets WP:RS, so it is put back in. Calwatch 03:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Your right but this is still gerrymandering hiding behind a veil of "enhancing minority representation". Gerrymandering reduces the power of one-person one-vote and destroys the democratic foundations of America.
Why can't a white person equally represent a district as a Minority? Now that's racism.
I'm very disappointed by this entry because it lacks objectivity. It probably was written by one of her staffers. I would like to see a balanced entry. Thank you.
Then you better get started. 76.122.102.100 (talk) 04:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
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