As many of you know (or don't know) since Reconstruction (and the Voting Rights Act of 1965) Georgia along with most of the Southern States cannot do anything election-related without the blessing of the Justice Department.
Our Secretary of State, Karen Handel, recently organized a program to verify the citizenship of every registered voter in the state but Ummmbama and his cronies have put a stop to that saying that it would be discriminatory to minorities. I ask, how and in what way? I met Secretary Handel the week before last and she was fired up about this program (along with running for Governor of Georgia); too bad The ONE put a stop to it. She's going to fight the DoJ decision.
In another brilliant move Ummbama's minion and AG, Eric Holder (Tax Cheat and former Board Member of Freddie Mac) announced that he would reverse a Bush Administration order that made it easier to deport illegals.
Anyway, here's an excerpt from an article in the Washington Times, all emphasis is my own:
Justice Dept. shifts on voting, deportation
By Ben Conery (Contact) | Thursday, June 4, 2009
The Obama Justice Department broke with two Bush-era approaches to citizenship and immigration this week, rejecting a Georgia system to verify the eligibility of voters on grounds that it hurt minorities and expanding the right of illegal immigrants to appeal their deportations.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. reversed an order by his predecessor, Michael B. Mukasey, and bolstered the legal rights of immigrants facing deportation, saying that immigrants can fight orders to leave the U.S. on the grounds of poor legal representation at their deportation hearings.
That decision was announced two days after the Justice Department banned Georgia from using a system to verify that voter registrants are U.S. citizens, saying it discriminated against racial minorities. In doing so, the Justice Department overruled a local election decision for just the second time since Mr. Obama took office, in this case by ruling on the side of those who want to expand voter access and against Georgia lawmakers who said voter fraud was the bigger danger.
"I just think it is an outrageously stupid decision," Hans A. von Spakovsky, a former career Justice Department lawyer who worked on voting-rights issues and is now a visiting legal scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said of the Georgia case. "I still can't believe they would do something this dumb."
Mr. von Spakovsky was involved with the Justice Department's decision four years ago to allow Arizona to implement a similar system that required people to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Arizona and Georgia are among the nine states, along with parts of seven others, that the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act requires to receive permission from the Justice Department before making changes to voting procedures.
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Full article:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/04/bush-era-immigrant-policies-reversed/?feat=home_top5_shared
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