[EL] Major new voting rights report just issued

[Rick Hasen]

    "???New Report Shows Continued Pattern of Voting Rights
    Discrimination---African American, Latino, Asian American and Native
    American Voters More Vulnerable Than Ever"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64064>

Posted on August 6, 2014 8:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64064>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Major new report 
<http://votingrightstoday.org/ncvr/resources/discriminationreport> 
issued by the National Commission on Voting Rights:

    On the anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act and a
    year after the Supreme Court's /Shelby County v Holder/ decision
    gutted a vital protection of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the
    National Commission on the Voting Rights has released a new national
    report showing where and how that minority voters continue to be
    hurt by discrimination in the U.S. The report, /Protecting Minority
    Voters: Our Work is Not Done/ challenges the Court's rational that
    improvements in minority citizens' rates of voting and voter
    registration and the success of minority candidates indicated that
    the coverage formula protecting minority voters was
    unconstitutionally outdated.

    Among the Report Findings Between 1995--2014:

  *

        *Voting discrimination is a frequent and ongoing problem in the
        United States.* There were about 332 successful voting rights
        lawsuits and denials of Section 5 preclearance by the U.S.
        Department of Justice and another ten non-litigation settlements.

  *

        *Formerly covered states in the South and Southwest stand out
        with some of worst records of voting discrimination--with Texas
        being at the top of the list.* Texas stands out as having a
        remarkably high level of documented voting discrimination,
        including multiple state-level violations. And the States of
        Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina were not far
        behind.

  *

        *From this report, we can also see that voting discrimination
        takes a variety of forms.* Discriminatory redistricting plans
        and at-large elections continue to prompt the most successful
        lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. However,
        there were also 48 successful lawsuits and ten non-litigation
        settlements relating to language translation and assistance.

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