Evidence shows they boost suffrage, not fraud
In 2021 Republican legislatures in 19 states passed 34 laws that restricted access to voting in more than a dozen different ways. And those are just the bills that succeeded; hundreds of other provisions, some still under consideration, were introduced nationwide.
The GOP has justified voting restrictions by saying that it is safeguarding elections against fraud and that certain protections against electoral bias are no longer necessary. Evidence belies this ploy to seize power by disenfranchising voters, especially minorities, who tend to vote Democratic. Voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the U.S. and hasn’t increased since the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But minority suffrage has grown tremendously, and the benefits of federal oversight have persisted.
Desmond Ang, an expert in public policy and race at Harvard University, disagrees, saying that preclearance is as essential to civil rights today as it ever has been. According to an analysis he published in 2019, that critical provision of the Voting Rights Act alone “continued to bolster enfranchisement over four decades later,” especially among minorities.
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