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People are hurting, and millions of them didn’t vote either way. They just didn’t vote. I want people to hear that. The vote totals went down. They didn’t go up. They went down. And we have to take this very seriously.

Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

The right to participate in the conduct of public affairs, which includes the right to vote and to be elected, is at the very heart of democratic governments based on the will of the people, according to the United Nations.

This Report documents how voters of color, young voters and those with disabilities have been targeted with repressive laws and policies that undermine the hard-fought progress secured during the Civil Rights era.

The ruling this week that narrows the scope of the Voting Rights Act applies directly only in the three states covered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, but it has national implications.