When Is Your Vote Not A Vote?

Well, another judge has found the Voting Rights Bill to be fair and constitutional. It's the law that requires certain states and portions of others to get permission before they can change the voting rules in case it will disenfranchise voters of minority groups. What happens and is happening all over the country, is new voting requirements and redistricting is taking place in order to do just that. But they're clever. They cover it in the idea that by requiring special voter ID they are preventing voter fraud. Two things. First they don't seem able to show any cases of voter fraud where the new ID would have prevented it. And second there's no question that the laws target certain demographics. Then for good measure, they make it more difficult and costly to obtain the special IDs. Like having the locations offering these IDs open only one or two days a month. Or fewer locations. Then there's redistricting. In almost every state, the Party in control of the state's legislature gets to draw the lines of the voting districts. It's never been fair, but with the advent of the computer, it's so much easier to configure districts so as to, for all intents and purposes, void any voters they want. I will say that this is one of the very few practices in government that is bi-partisan. If you happen to be a member of a minority party in your state and you really want your vote to count, you should move to a state where your party is in the majority. Which is pretty much what the parties want anyway. If moving isn't feasible, consider switching parties. It will require changing the way you think, unless you don't bother with that sort of thing.