This evidence goes back no further than the 2012 Presidential Election. ... They have a lot of political power. ... The purpose of the Wall Street Journal editorial was to illustrate Holder's strategy is to scare minorities into seeing voter ID laws as a threat, hopefully energizing them to turn out for Obama in the Presidential election. ... " Latino community leaders have also told Latino voters that these laws are an attempt to silence their growing political power, but some in the Latino community resent the implication that Hispanics, like black voters, are somehow inept t...

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In the months leading up to the recent 2012 presidential election, there was an issue that was all over the news because of the impact that it would have at the polls. ... 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. ...

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