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Section 5 was a measure that forced jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination against Black voters to seek approval from the Justice Department for any changes to voting laws or processes.
Virginia women were only given one month to register to vote before the November 1920 presidential election, and registrars were not prepared for the large number of women voters. [1] [2] [14] Three white women were hired to process white women's voter registrations; black women were left to stand in long lines as they waited to be registered.
The consequences of these laws have been especially harmful for minority voters. Research indicates that the racial turnout gap has grown significantly since the Shelby County decision. For example, in the 2022 midterm elections, the racial turnout gap was larger than in any midterm since at least 2006. [13]
In the last 14 months, the state’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly and Mr. Northam have together repealed the state's voter ID law, enacted 45 days of no-excuse absentee voting, made Election Day a state holiday and enacted automatic voter registration for anyone who receives a Virginia driver's license [d]...Ralph Northam this week ...
Information from the John Locke Foundation found that, for the 2020 election, over 753,000 Black voters took part in early voting. So far in 2024, and with just days to go before early voting ends ...
A 2018 study in The Journal of Politics found that Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act "increased black voter registration by 14–19 percentage points, white registration by 10–13 percentage points, and overall voter turnout by 10–19 percentage points. Additional results for Democratic vote share suggest that some of this overall ...
The post features a photo of the vote totals in the Virginia race. The photo shows President-Elect Donald Trump ahead of Harris at 49.5% (or 1,227,559 votes) compared to her 48.7% (or 1,207,424 ...
One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...