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Civil Rights

Oct. 10, 2015

Compelling case for sustaining voting rights protections

A review of Ari Berman's "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." By Robert Rubin

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By Robert Rubin


As Ari Berman tells it in "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights
in America" (Macmillan 2015), a prominent Republican operative once boasted, "I don't
want everybody to vote ... our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as
the voting populace goes down." Republican-controlled states now restrict minority
voting access through identifi...

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