Mark Shields Quotes
The Republicans had done two things in the last few years. They have made it easier to buy a gun and harder to vote.
The Republicans had been very effective in staffing off all attempts to strengthen gun control legislation. In addition, in a number of states they passed legislation reducing the voting days, times and places and requiring driver’s licenses or equivalent picture ID at the time of registration voting. Election day, not being a work holiday in America, it is harder for less affluent people to arrange their schedules and get to polling places, so restrictions tend to reduce their voting more so than for affluent citizens. The former tend not to vote for Republicans, so this was a very effective political strategy, albeit many questioned the morality, the fairness, the legality and the long term value to the nation.
Mark Shields, Political Columnist, PBS Evening News, October 10, 2014
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The speech was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
The voting problems we have had are managerially and technology solvable but politically each solution is perceived as favoring one of the political parties in the particular jurisdiction and therefore there is resistance to the change.
He was explaining why preclearance was necessary. Preclearance was a requirement that any change in the voting or registration laws, rules or procedures needed to be approved by the Federal Justice Department.
Mark Stephen Shields is an American political columnist and commentator. He has worked in leadership positions for many Democratic candidates' election campaigns.
