Probe over whether students' voting rights violated still ongoing

[sonias]

AAS 4/26/08
Probe over whether students' voting rights violated still ongoing

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — Some students at a historically black university are wondering why an investigation by the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott into alleged voting rights violations is still not finished.

Abbott's office began its probe in December 2006 after allegations were made that about 300 students at Prairie View A&M University had to cast provisional ballots when their names were not on voting lists.

A provisional ballot is cast when someone shows up to vote and credentials for voting in a particular district cannot be verified on election day. Such a ballot is counted only after a voter's eligibility is verified.

Local black leaders also contended that more than 1,000 voter-registration forms may not have been processed by Waller County officials.

"Something should have been done by now," student Ashley Slayton told the Houston Chronicle. "I don't know think there is a logical explanation for why there hasn't been anything done."

Something sure should have been done by now, but don't wait for Abbott to do anything to defend minority voting rights. He's all about the voter suppression side of it. :grr:

Sonia

[Lithos]

1. The student is wrong

There is a perfectly logical explanation as you have already demonstrated. Now that Poll-Tax and other Jim Crow laws are illegal, the GOP (which includes the former Dixiecrats) have to resort to selective government where things are allowed to move slower for one group than another.

L-

[tbyg52]

2. Yep. It's perfectly logical.

She's not paranoid - people *are* out to get her (and us). And probably our little dogs, too. One of the strengths of the jerks currently running things is their blatancy - often they get away with things because nobody can believe they're *that* bad. But they are.