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June 23, 2016 09:36 am PDT

2016: the first presidential election in 50 years without Voting Rights Act protections

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Three years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, a 50-year-old piece of civil rights legislation that ended the Jim Crow practices of poll taxes and other restrictions that disproportionately denied people of color and poor people the right to vote. (more…)


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