The Problem Play of Voting Rights: Is it Curtain Call for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act?

By November 6, 2012

By: Jorge R. Delgado “Voter ID” laws, voter purges, early voting changes, and similar measures have become familiar terms in today’s news cycle.  One person’s initiative to stop voter fraud easily becomes another person’s surreptitious scheme to suppress minority voting rights.  Statistics offer plenty of fodder for disagreement, and disagreement …