Tram Nguyen is the the co-executive director of New Virginia Majority. She spoke with Facing South about Virginia's new Voting Rights Act and the fight for voting rights across the country. (Photo courtesy of Tram Nguyen) On July 1, the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the only major section of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 still in force with its ruling in the Arizona case Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Virginia Voting Rights Act went into effect, providing broad protections against voter suppression, discrimination, and intimidation. As Republican-controlled states across the South raced to establish new voting restrictions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2013