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"  This Artur Davis cat, he&amp;#039;s a real prize, he is. At a time in which the national voter-suppression efforts by the Republican party are at their most fast and furious \u2014 &amp;quot;My kind of party,&amp;quot; says vote-suppressionist William Rehnquist, checking in from Hell \u2014 here comes Davis, in loud support of one of the worst of them all, and in the state where his former congressional colleague, John Lewis, almost got brained trying to win the rights that Davis wants to curtail. These are the kind of ironic moments in which our good friend, Clio, the Muse of History \u2014 also known by her Marvel superhero name, The Proclaimer (!) \u201A puts on the headgear and thinks about going Bronze Age on someone&amp;#039;s ass.  The prize paragraph, of course, is the one where Davis pretends that this isn&amp;#039;t part of what I am sure is going to be a lucrative pilgrimage from being a friend of President Obama to being a sideshow attraction at the Fox News Channel, but that, rather, it is Artur Davis&amp;#039;s personal fight to ensure the integrity of the historically well-regarded Alabama electoral system: The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt. Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights \u2014 that&amp;#039;s suppression by any light. If you doubt it exists, I don&amp;#039;t; I&amp;#039;ve heard the peddlers of these ballots brag about it, I&amp;#039;ve been asked to provide the funds for it, and I am confident it has changed at least a few close local election results. Bullshit. Prove it, or shut up. Elsewhere, Davis&amp;#039;s former colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus somehow have managed to recover from the devastating loss of Artur Davis, rising star, and are planning to go it alone on this issue if they have to do so. And, frankly, they ought not to be alone. Young folks from Hanover to Spartanburg to Miami have skin in this game now, too, and in local as well as national elections. Artur Davis is the joke in all of this. Here&amp;#039;s the punchline, courtesy of a recent report: &amp;quot;We have no record of or any confirmed case of (voter fraud) in South Carolina in recent history,&amp;quot; Chris Whitmire, a spokesman for the South Carolina State Election Commission told NPR. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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