Obama DOJ: No Post-Partisan for YOU

Via NRO, Abigail Thernstrom:

Both Hans von Spakovsky and Ben Conery have done splendid jobs telling the Kinston story. The small city had voted two-to-one to get rid of partisan labels on candidates running for local office, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) decided such a move was discriminatory. Blacks are a majority of registered voters in Kinston, but they are usually a minority on Election Day. In the eyes of the DOJ, that makes them a racial minority in need of protection. Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, they are entitled to constitutionally extraordinary shelter when a change in the method of voting diminishes their opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.

Joseph Tyson, a Democrat interviewed by Conery, expressed his disappointment “with the apathy that we have in Kinston among the Afro-American voters.” In fact, black voters were not apathetic when Barack Obama was on the ballot. But Kinston is both majority-black and majority Democrat, so election outcomes are quite predictable. As a consequence, black turnout tends to be low, as it is in the majority-black districts that the DOJ forces jurisdictions to draw to ensure the election of black candidates (this is not, of course, the DOJ’s publicly stated rationale).

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