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They did not overturn the VRA; they just overturned the part that allows the whole thing to be enforced in a timely manner.
by TheCoelacanth 11y ago
They did not overturn the VRA; they just overturned the part that allows the whole thing to be enforced in a timely manner.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> They did not overturn the VRA; they just overturned the part that allows the whole thing to be enforced in a timely manner. Specifically, they overturned the preclearance requirement, which requires places that have been found to discriminate in the past to get clearance from the Justice Department before implementing changes to voting procedures. This requirement was to prevent jurisdictions from implementing changes that have major deleterious effects on specific groups and then having one or more elections occur (and then official acts and laws passed shaped by the results of those elections) while the legal challenges work up through the system.