What happened to the Voting Rights Act?
This country has a long history of disenfranchising and suppressing the votes of people of color, particularly in the South. Today's voter suppression often takes the form of purging eligible voters from the rolls, cutting back early and absentee voting, closing polling places, and using strict voter ID requirements – disenfranchising voters of color at every turn. Since the Voting Rights Act was gutted in 2013, 1,688 polling places have been shuttered in states previously bound by the Act's preclearance requirement. Texas Republicans put a voter ID law into effect almost immediately following the decision — a law that they had been prevented from passing in 2011 when the Voting Rights Act was still intact. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, now named the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act in his honor, to restore the Voting Rights Act and stop this pervasive voter suppression.
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