The Editorial Board
Published June 29, 2013
...What is needed (click here) now is a new coalition — as loud and as angry as the voices of 1965 — to demand that Republican lawmakers join Democrats in restoring fairness to the election system. Discrimination at the ballot box continues and is growing...
There are two approaches and the one that works is best. Choose those most likely to pass good legislation and set them in a class of conscience, then sue those and/or campaign against those that would seek to use this 'new formula' to control the outcome of elections.
It should not be difficult to find the Congress persons with a conscience and those in office to serve special interests and cronies. We don't want them there.
The reason lawsuits would be important is because the short period of time necessary to move this forward for the 2014 elections.
Demonstrations may work at Congressional local offices of those without a conscience to make a spectacle of them. But, there is such a strong resistance to treat Americans with fairness and importance in exercising their voting rights, demonstrations alone won't move these people.
Speaker Boner does not have control or even consensus of his House members. Many don't respect him. So, to expect leadership of the US House to bring such a bill to the floor at all is remote. They have to be pushed.
President Obama needs to address the Congress and propose a formula he believes is the best formula. There has to be a nation standing with him.
