FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kelly Ceballos
www.lwv.org 202-263-1331
November 9, 2012 kceballos@lwv.org
Supreme Court Set to Review Voting Rights Act
Editorial Note: This blog post was originally published on my Huffington Post blog
Today, South Carolina voters were the victorious when a U.S. Federal District Court blocked implementation of the state’s new voter photo identification law for the November 6th general election.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 10, 2012
CONTACTS: Barbara Zia (LWV SC)/ 803/251/2726
Today, a judge in Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the recently passed voter photo identification law, and not to grant an injunction to prevent it from being implemented.
Forty-seven years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law. But, the law is not just history; it remains critical to ensuring that every American can cast a ballot and have it counted. Even as we celebrate the VRA, unnecessary and costly new state voting laws remind us that voter suppression and intimidation tactics continue to plague our nation.