'Voter suppression can worsen amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and urgent action is needed to protect everyone's right to vote,' Nicole Austin-Hillery writes for CNNOpinion.
Nicole Austin-Hillery is the executive director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch and the former Washington director and counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
Many things are at stake as the nation battles the Covid-19 crisis; among the central long-term concerns is the fate of our right to vote. Facing so much suffering and death has left many grief-stricken Americans feeling robbed of a voice -- and voting is a crucial way of shouting back,"I'm here. My loved ones and I matter.
Nicole Austin-Hillery Since that decision, numerous states have changed laws to require voters to show photo IDs, have purged their voter rolls, or have shortened or ended early voting. Court challenges in Texas, North Carolina and other states have shown that these changes make it harder for black, Latino, poor and older communities to vote. As reported by the ACLU in a recent commentary on voter suppression in 2020, 70% of voters purged from the Georgia rolls in 2018 were black.
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