Democrats push to make voting rights a 2020 issue by jonward11
WASHINGTON — With an eye toward making the reinstatement of the 1965 Voting Rights Act an issue in the 2020 election, Democrats are pushing ambitious new legislation they hope will lay the groundwork for increased voter participation.
“Getting the Voting Rights Act updated and strengthened again is key,” said Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., a key proponent of HR 4, which was introduced last week by Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala. The court’s Shelby decision left open the possibility of renewal of what is known under the VRA as “pre-clearance” for state and local election changes, but said that Congress needed to approve new formulas to trigger the scrutiny of the federal government.
Carol Anderson’s 2018 book “One Person, No Vote” documented the impact of election law changes in the 2016 election and pushed the idea that the decline in African-American participation in the Rust Belt states that decided the election was due to Republicans culling the voter rolls and erecting obstacles to voting. The Democrats 2016 presidential nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, talked about these impacts this past weekend.
Following her defeat, Abrams founded a group called Fair Fight Action and filed lawsuits that argue Kemp erected an “obstacle course” for voters.
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