Re: House To Consider Two Amendments on Floor for VRA Renewal: Proactive Bailout and Change in Coverage Formula


This amendment is coming from the Georgia delegation.  It would keep Georgia covered.

I am out on a case and can't get into the data right now to review what other states or jurisdictions would stay in, but it would likely keep in one of the NY boroughs, a couple of the California counties, maybe parts of South Dakota.  Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama would likely get out.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Still <still@votelaw.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:02 am
Subject: Re: House To Consider Two Amendments on Floor for VRA Renewal: Proactive Bailout and Change in Coverage Formula

The substance of the two amendments can be found here: 
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_reports&docid=f:hr516.109.pdf.
Does anyone know the actual effect of the revised trigger (based on 
the three most recent presidential elections) would be?



At 12:01 AM 6/21/2006, Rick Hasen wrote:

So <http://rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/13945-

1.html>reports

Roll Call in a breaking news report (paid subscription required). 
You can find details about the proactive bailout proposal,

submitted

by Rep. Westmoreland, 
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/005964.html>here. I have not 
seen the trigger proposal, authored by Rep. Norwood, but Roll Call 
describes it this way: the coverage "formula [would] be modified

to

take into account the results of the three most recent

presidential

elections on a rolling basis, rather than the static figures it is 
now based on. In addition, the new formula would subject any state 
to Section 5 requirements should it be determined that a state has

'discriminatory test' in place, or if voter turnout falls below 50 
percent in any of those three elections."

The debate is scheduled for Wednesday and the vote for Thursday.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/005977.html>09:59 PM



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