“You can praise John Lewis, but do you respect his values?' said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the activist group Black Voters Matter. 'Voting shouldn’t be a partisan issue, it's a democracy issue,”
waiting to vote in Georgia’s primary. After finally casting her ballot, she delivered pizza and encouragement to others in Black-majority districts of Atlanta who faced even longer delays.
Conversations with a range of voting rights activists and scholars suggest that the foundational core of American democratic values — the expression of individual freedom through the ballot box — is at an unprecedented crossroads. Trump also recently said in an interview that he might not accept the results of the Nov. 3 count. "I'll keep you in suspense,"For many of the Lewis' friends and peers, the time is right to secure voting rights for all in the name of a man who, as a 21-year-old activist in 1961, was beaten and arrested for standing up to racism. Lewis passed away after a cancer battle on July 17 and will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda on Monday and Tuesday.
That's due in large part to the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder, in which the court ruled 5 to 4 that states no longer had to comply with Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which required some states with a history of discriminatory voting laws to obtain federal “preclearance” before enacting changes to voting laws or practices.against certain voters that Section 5 was meant to counter no longer exists.
"It’s just hard keeping up through a case-by-case litigation strategy,” says Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a group founded by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 that enlists private lawyers for civil rights work.and got thousands of names restored to voter rolls after the state issued rules saying that names on various voter documents had to match exactly.
“Many I speak with are concerned that what we’re seeing in Portland is a test run for what we might see on election day,” says Albright, referring to Trump’s dispatching Color of Change, a national racial justice group, plans to use its platform to keep voters updated on registration guidelines as well as to counter Internet-spread disinformation. Founder Rashad Robinson says Lewis’ legacy hangs in the balance.
The Leadership's And Still I Vote initiative is a public information campaign focused on younger voters, while All Voting Is Local leverages staff in eight states to re-register voters purged from rolls, recruit poll station workers and expand early voting options.
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