1. Voter ID Laws and Democracy
Although Voter ID laws just became a hot topic in the public eye within the past year or so, the first laws of this nature came into existence in 2002 with the Help Americans Vote Act. ... The Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to solidify the voting rights of all Americans, and gave the Department of Justice the power to sue states that limited the voting rights of minorities. ... Jessie Allen makes another comparison between the two cases: In both this year's case and Patterson, plaintiffs argued that making it particularly hard for some voters to prove their eligibility violates the P...
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