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In reply to the discussion: As long as we're getting rid of monuments to slave owners, [View all]Celerity
(43,251 posts)37. the 14th Amendment unfortunately also created a MASSIVE disenfranchisement tool
https://eji.org/news/race-voting-and-a-gaping-loophole-a-critical-look-at-the-14th-amendment/
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
The Fourteenth Amendment is an amendment that was intended to give formerly enslaved people citizenship, explained Ryan Haygood, a civil rights lawyer who has litigated landmark challenges to disenfranchisement. But it was also the same amendment that allowed, expressly, for those rights to be withheld if you were convicted of a crime. That conflict is a function of America at once being a place that has very high ideals of freedom and equality, alongside very low practices that undermine the very things that we say we hold dear.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
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Cue it up. Looooong overdue. Popular vote, paper trail, scanners that can't be hacked.
Evolve Dammit
Jun 2020
#9
14th amendment says we can take away electoral votes from some racially oppressive states
IronLionZion
Jun 2020
#10
the 14th Amendment unfortunately also created a MASSIVE disenfranchisement tool
Celerity
Jun 2020
#37
It will require a constitutional amendment which can drag on for years. nt
yellowdogintexas
Jun 2020
#33
The Electoral College was constructed to give more power to white southerners, out of proportion
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2020
#29