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February 28, 2007
Voting Rights Act preclearance provisions
Abigail Thernstrom of the Manhattan Institute has this article (PDF) in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy on how Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which requires (some) localities to pre-clear changes in election rules to avoid adverse impact on minority voters, has evolved into something quite different from its original conception.
Posted by Walter Olson at 12:06 AM
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