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Gaps between Black and white voter participation persist nearly 60 years after the Voting Rights Act promised protections for all voters.

Gaps between Black and white voter participation persist nearly 60 years after the Voting Rights Act promised protections for all voters.

Gaps between Black and white voter participation persist nearly 60 years after the Voting Rights Act promised protections for all voters.

­ One of the less-noticed aspects of the sweeping voting law Georgia passed earlier this year was among the most worrying to voting rights advocates: the power that SB 202 gave the state legislature to get involved in elections. Now, the legislature has begun to act on those powers.   Republican lawmakers in the state have taken the first step toward replacing the elections administrator in Georgia’s most populous county.   As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported, two dozen state senators wrote to the State Election Board calling for a performance review for Fulton County’s...

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