Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

August 6th 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law giving Black Americans the right to vote.

Forty states have implemented “suppressive” voting laws since the Supreme Court “eviscerated” the Voting Rights Act of 1965, insisted Martin Luther King III, also representing the Drum Major Institute. The High Court gave nine states, primarily in the South, the okay to change laws governing their elections without receiving federal approval beforehand.

According to the Wagram Democrat, subtle restrictions that have emerged in recent years – ID laws and limits on registration drives – are again putting voting rights in jeopardy. “In theory, everybody’s in favor of the right to vote; in practice, we have state legislatures that are deliberately trying to make it harder for people to vote”.

“Yet many with limited English proficiency or who lack a government ID are falling prey to the discriminatory voting laws that still exist today”.

“The intent of this law is to protect the voting process in Texas, and we will continue to defend this important safeguard for all Texas voters”, said Paxton. Vice President of the Biloxi NAACP Gordon Jackson said, “And it took away all of things like poll taxes and all of the obstacles, all of the hardcore obstacles that were implemented to keep African Americans from voting at the time”. We received more than 100 calls from over 30 states.

“Sharecroppers, maids, ordinary folks – had it not been for them awakening the consciousness of the nation, the president could not have mustered the political support that was required to ultimately get this seminal law passed”, Obama said.

“The Voting Rights Act is one of our country’s most effective and powerful civil rights statutes”.

According to his office, in the 2014 election about 200 peoples’ votes did not count because they did not have one of the seven approved forms of ID.

Obama further emphasized that Congress, state legislators, businesses, universities and citizens are all responsible for maintaining and expanding voting rights. “The act’s success is evident in the dramatic increase in minorities voting and holding elected office over the past decades”, said Sen.