The ruling effectively left voters at the mercy of state legislators. Three years before, in 2013, the Supreme Court had revoked the part of the law that required states with a history of voting discrimination to get federal approval in order to change their voting statutes. The 2016 presidential election was the first in 50 years to be held without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. “Minority voters did not just refuse to show up,” she writes in “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.” “Republican legislatures and governors systematically blocked African-Americas, Hispanics and Asian-Americans from the polls.” As the elaborate post-mortem of the presidential election drags on - amid all the diagnoses of Russian interference, Clintonian blunders and white-working-class resentment - Carol Anderson wants to direct your attention to one simple fact: In November 2016, black voter turnout fell by 7 percent.Īnderson rebukes anyone who takes this as a facile statement of how black voters felt about Hillary Clinton.
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