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details how minority voters in Virginia have been intimidated and targeted—by nongovernmental actors, local governments, and political campaigns—with disinformation campaigns designed to confuse and threaten voters, and thereby disenfranchise them.
The white-majority General Assembly appointed all election registrars, who administered a deliberately complicated process to register voters. These measures achieved the convention’s desired result and reduced voting by poor whites, Black men, and Republicans dramatically. 88,000 fewer voters took part in the 1905 gubernatorial election in ...
The Voting Rights Act of Virginia is a Virginia law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting and establishes a preclearance provision for proposed changes to election administration, among other provisions.
2 kwi 2021 · Republican state legislators all opposed the Virginia Voting Rights Act, arguing that it would inundate local election administrators with lawsuits and complicate routine changes to voting.
20 lip 2021 · Holder decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, Democratic-controlled Virginia ultimately moved in the opposite direction by passing legislation that will protect the state's marginalized voters and expand ballot access.
26 cze 2021 · Democrats led efforts to expand Virginia’s early voting period, eliminate excuse requirements for absentee voting, make Election Day a state holiday and address partisan gerrymandering.
15 gru 2021 · FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Proposed redistricting maps under consideration by the Virginia Supreme Court would constitute a significant reduction in the number of majority Black districts in the General Assembly.
