Why Do Democrats Ignore Massive Voter Suppression?

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25. the bigger question is why do Dems ignore civic inequality in the vote?

In the 60's landmark voters rights cases in the south made illegal all vote weighting/dilution schemes which gave some citizens in county X a bigger vote than citizens in county Y. From Reynolds v Sims

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/377/533.html

It could hardly be gainsaid that a constitutional claim had been asserted by an allegation that certain otherwise qualified voters had been entirely prohibited from voting for members of their state legislature. And, if a State should provide that the votes of citizens in one part of the State should be given two times, or five times, or 10 times the weight of votes of citizens in another part of the State, it could hardly be contended that the right to vote of those residing in the disfavored areas had not been effectively diluted. It would appear extraordinary to suggest that a State could be constitutionally permitted to enact a law providing that certain of the State's voters could vote two, five, or 10 times for their legislative representatives, while voters living elsewhere could vote only once. And it is inconceivable that a state law to the effect that, in counting votes for legislators, the votes of citizens in one part of the State would be multiplied by two, five, or 10, while the votes of persons in another area would be counted only at face value, could be constitutionally sustainable.

Our entire federal system is based on such vote weighting/dilution schemes. Any citizen living in WY has a 72x bigger influence in the Senate than any citizen in CA. No, this doesn't even out in the House since any given citizen gets only one House member... not the entire state delegation. Any citizen in WY has a 3.5x bigger presidential vote than any citizen in CA. Where does this civic inequality lead? In determining the outcome of election 2000... the vote of any citizen in Bush's FL lead weighed as much as 1000 citizens in Gore's national lead.