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This 7 page paper discusses voting rights and recent Supreme Court decisions, and also touches on gerrymandering and reactions to it. It argues that politics, not law, is the driving force in the most recent decisions. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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have apparently been made on partisan grounds, leaving millions of Americans disenfranchised. This paper discusses voting rights and recent Supreme Court decisions, and also touches on gerrymandering and reactions to
it. It argues that politics, not law, is the driving force in the most recent decisions. Voting Rights The uneasiness about the Supreme Court and its decisions began with the
2000 presidential election. Criticism of the Courts ruling in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) came from Constitutional scholars and attorneys of every political persuasion, who put aside their
differences to condemn what they saw as a partisan ruling that put politics ahead of the good of the nation. "We have seen statewide purges of thousands of African American
voters falsely accused of being felons ... refusals by partisan state elections officials to count valid ballots, phony voter registration drives in which registration cards were thrown away, and
naked manipulation of candidates access to the ballot" (Raskin, 2005, p. 12). This re-emerging struggle over "basic voting rights ... reveals a structural weakness in American democracy: the citizens
of the country still lack an affirmative constitutional right to vote and to have their votes counted" (Raskin, 2005, p. 12). In its 2000 decision (that one that stopped
the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States" (Raskin,
2005, p. 12). So even when states grant their citizens the right to vote, they can "always revoke it and simply take back the power to appoint electors" (Raskin, 2005,
p. 12). Recently the Supreme Court has "upheld the power of states to reject write-in ballots ... approved the imposition of huge obstacles to ballot access for minor parties" (Raskin,
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