...One of the weirder turns the legal challenge to the EM law has taken was that the law deprives hundreds of thousands of Michigan citizens, specifically African Americans, of their fundamental rights under the Voting Rights Act. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, however, found that the Voting Rights Act protects only the physical act of casting a ballot. Isn't that interesting? Your right to cast that ballot is sacred and worth defending. But as soon as they accede to office, they can be stripped of power in a sneaky switcheroo? Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said:

"The point of democracy is not for people to merely go through the motions of electing those who sit in a given ‘elected seat,’ but for them to have an equal right to participate in democracy by electing those who actually govern." ...

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