New Voting Rights Advancement Act introduced to Congress beckoning further federal protection of voting rights
buzzz worthy. . . In preparation for the the 2016 election season, Democratic law makers are revisiting state legislation that threatens a provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 2013 in the case of Shelby vs. Holder the supreme court overturned a provision that effectively allowed the federal government to oversee changes states made to voting procedures. If passed the new Voting Rights Advancement bill would restore the requirement for federal approval for voting procedure changes in some states. Those states have historically been on record for voter disenfranchisement practices. The White House released a statement on June 24 introducing the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015. It reads: This August, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. As the President has noted, ‘the Voting Rights Act was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy, the result of Republican and Democratic eff...