Eric Holder on how to beat back the voter-suppression backlash
by the Democracy Initiative Education Fund ranked Maryland second, behind Colorado, in election integrity, voter confidence and voter rights. D.C. ranked 10th and Virginia, 11th.But what about those living in states at the bottom of the list — such as Florida, Texas, Arizona, Wisconsin and Arkansas, just to name a few?
,” we need free and fair elections for all in this country — or else we’ll all be kissing our voting rights goodbye.In the book, Holder recalled that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been expanding voting opportunities since the day it was signed, with Congress reauthorizing the act to ensure that progress continued.
“Strategically, you can understand where they were coming from,” Holder writes. “President Obama’s election had scared them — as it should have. The most diverse electorate in history had turned out in unprecedented numbers to send an African American senator to the White House; and they knew the country would only become less white in the years ahead.
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