{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"5-4-26","description":"  A las pocas horas de la decisi\u00f3n de la Corte Suprema que debilit\u00f3 a la Ley de Derechos Electorales, los l\u00edderes republicanos actuaron con rapidez para modificar distritos electorales. En las elecciones congresionales, el partido que obtiene la mayor\u00eda de los votos en un distrito estatal tiene un voto en el Congreso. Por ello, los pol\u00edticos pueden manipular las elecciones redise\u00f1ando los l\u00edmites de un distrito. Dado que la raza es el indicador m\u00e1s fiable para predecir si alguien votar\u00e1 por partido dem\u00f3crata o republicano, hist\u00f3ricamente los pol\u00edticos han redise\u00f1ado los l\u00edmites de los distritos para que quienes probablemente voten por ellos residan dentro de sus l\u00edmites, \u00f3, quienes no probablemente voten por ellos queden divididos y, por lo tanto, no puedan formar una mayor\u00eda. La Ley de Derechos Electorales de 1965, principal victoria del Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles, estableci\u00f3 restricciones a esta pr\u00e1ctica. La semana pasada, la Corte Suprema revoc\u00f3 algunas de esas restricciones, y los legisladores de cinco estados Republicanos convocaron sesiones de emergencia del Congreso para redise\u00f1ar los mapas de los distritos electorales, presumiblemente para restringir el derecho al voto a los votantes afroamericanos que probablemente votar\u00e1n por los dem\u00f3cratas en las pr\u00f3ximas elecciones de congreso.   &amp;nbsp;   Within hours of the Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act, Republican leaders moved quickly to alter congressional maps. During mid-term elections, which ever party gets the majority of votes in a given district of a state gets one vote in congress. Because of this, politicians can manipulate elections by re-drawing the borders of a district. Because race is the strongest predictable indicator of whether someone will vote Democrat or Republican, politicians have historically redrawn district borders so that the people who are likely to vote for them live within the borders of their district, or, people who are not likely to vote for them end up getting split up and therefore can\u2019t form a majority. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was the main victory of the Civil Rights Movement, created restrictions on this. Last week, the Supreme Court retracted some of those restrictions, and Republican lawmakers in five Republican states called emergency congressional sessions to redraw district maps, presumably to disenfranchise Black voters who are likely to vote Democrat in the upcoming mid-terms. ","author_name":"Bolet\u00edn de Noticias de KBBF \/ KBBF News Bulletin","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/460356","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41151350\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/41151350"}