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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧
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The Voting Rights Act at 60: still the frontline for democracy

Decades after its passage, the revolutionary law continues to face threats and attempts to pervert its purpose

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
George Chidi
Wed 6 Aug 2025 07.00 EDT

Congress wrote the #VotingRights Act to prevent the case-by-case whack-a-mole games local lawmakers were playing with election rules. It forced jurisdictions with a history of #discrimination to clear elections changes with the Department of Justice before they could go into effect. It banned literacy tests to vote and allowed challenges to district maps when those maps would not allow proportional representation for minority voters.