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Voter Protection Still Needed 47 Years After the Enactment of the Voting Rights Act

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With the elections coming, the question of voter protection and the franchise has acquired greater importance than at any other time since the days of the Civil Rights movement.
Since the Obama election, there have been a plethora of bills proposed in 41 states, and passed in almost 30 states, to limit the right to vote. Already with early voting there have been problems for Latino voters in Nevada and Arizona. These laws constitute the biggest wave of restrictions of the democratic rights of the overall population since the days of McCarthyism.
These measures dovetail seamlessly with the overall attack on union workers' rights, immigrant rights, women's rights, workers' right to organize a union, and the overall rise of racism in the country.
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