Critics of the law to vote but was
A team of lawyers from the Department of Justice and analysts, will check the identification of Georgia voters the right to reject, because he was without doubt discrimination against black voters, but they were received by the next day senior officials on justice, according to department documents.
The Department of Justice, emerges the “Pre-clearance” of the controversial Georgia voter identification program as a joint decision of life and political appointed members of the Civil Rights Division. Republican proponents in Georgia have cited federal approval of the programme as evidence that this is not discrimination, Afro-Americans and other minorities.
But on August 25 employees of memory “Washington Post recommended blocking the program because Georgia does not have to show that the measure would not dilute the votes of minority residents, as the Voting Rights Act.
The message that four of five members of the team, also said that the State would be incorrect and incomplete. The team found significant signs ensure that the plan would be “regression”, ie it would Blacks’ access to the polls.
A day later, on 26 August, the head of the division of the section of voting rights, John Tanner, told Georgia officials that the program could move forward. “The Attorney General does not interpose any objection to the changes,” he said in a letter to her.
Eric Netherlands, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said in a statement this week that “differences of views in a healthy debate and the right to vote, decisions are taken after considering both the benefits and cons very carefully. ”
“At the end of the day, the head of the section is responsible for calling the recommendation” to the federal assistant attorney general for civil rights, he said.
The voter ID Georgia program has been fierce debates party because it was controlled by the Republican state legislature in March. The plan was blocked on constitutional grounds in October by a U.S. District Court judge, the measure compared to a Jim Crow-era head of taxes. One of the three judges of the appellate court panel, Democrats and Republicans, two members appointed, the Tribunal confirmed the decline.
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