By Gary L. FlowersNNPA ColumnistThe attack on voting rights for people of color in the United States of America is as old as the Republic itself. Under “Jefferson Democracy” only White men who owned land had the legal right to vote. Today’s policy debate over voting rights can be broken down into two camps. Likewise, in the presidential election of 2004 Ohio schemes such as private tabulators on public voting machines and voting machines designed and operated by political partisans again decided the federal election for George W. Bush. In fact, the 26th Amendment (granting18-year olds voting rights) became law in only 3 months.