[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 12, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H5055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  PROTECT AGAINST INTIMIDATION AND VOTER FRAUD BY PASSING THE VOTING 
                               RIGHTS ACT

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, the Voting Rights Act was passed to put an 
end to intimidation of poor and black voters.
  Sadly, acts of intimidation and voter fraud directed at black and 
Latino voters are not just a thing of the past. In 2000, Florida's 
blacks were intimidated and illegally removed from the voter rolls. In 
2002, in my district in Georgia, we learned that crossover voting can 
be used as effectively as the all-white primaries once were. In 2004, 
Ohio's black voters faced intimidation and fabricated long lines by 
misallocating the voting machines. Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting was 
ruled by this Supreme Court to violate Latino voting rights. And just 
last week, the Georgia legislature's second Voter ID bill got smacked 
down by the courts a second time.
  The Voting Rights Act is relevant and necessary to protect our 
precious right to vote.

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