Voter Suppression Laws, Attacks on Elections, and the Future of Democracy
What You Will Learn
- This program will examine present-day challenges to voting and what attorneys can do to address challenges, protect voting rights, and out-organize suppression attempts. Panelists will address the following, among other issues: the initial enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the recent history that gave rise to voter suppression laws, the current schemes of voter suppression and vote dilution, the Rights denied to certain segments of the population, review of the different legislative proposals in Congress and in states, and the tools, including the existing Voting Rights Act, to challenge and fight back in court
What You Will Learn
- This program will examine present-day challenges to voting and what attorneys can do to address challenges, protect voting rights, and out-organize suppression attempts. Panelists will address the following, among other issues: the initial enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the recent history that gave rise to voter suppression laws, the current schemes of voter suppression and vote dilution, the Rights denied to certain segments of the population, review of the different legislative proposals in Congress and in states, and the tools, including the existing Voting Rights Act, to challenge and fight back in court
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60 minutes
Date Published
September 16, 2022
Publisher
Philadelphia Bar Association
Subjects
Civil Rights, Govt./Legislative Process
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Voter Suppression Laws, Attacks on Elections, and the Future of Democracy
Program originally presented Friday, September 16, 2022 as part of the 2022 Bench Bar and Annual Conference
Voter rights and legislation is a fundamental issue that has guided the principles of “freedom” in America. Its landmark is the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But recent years have seen attacks on election officials, surreptitious new laws stripping away voters’ rights, and fraudulent audits of political elections. In 2013, Shelby County v. Holder weakened the Voting Rights Act by declaring Section 4's preclearance formula unconstitutional. For that reason, there is no longer federal oversight in areas with histories of discrimination in voting practices and procedures, as well as an increase of discrimination in voting practices and procedures throughout the country. For example, voter ID laws, reduced polling places, voter registration purges, lack of absentee balloting, and "poll taxes" of old remain as hurdles that many low-income, elderly and minority populations currently face in accessing the franchise.
This program will examine present-day challenges to voting and what attorneys can do to address challenges, protect voting rights, and out-organize suppression attempts. Panelists will address the following, among other issues:
- The initial enforcement of the Voting Rights Act
- The recent history that gave rise to voter suppression laws
- The current schemes of voter suppression and vote dilution
- The Rights denied to certain segments of the population
- Review of the different legislative proposals in Congress and in states
- The tools, including the existing Voting Rights Act, to challenge and fight back in court
Moderator:
Kevin V. Mincey, Esq.
Managing Partner, Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross, LLC
Co-Chair, Bench Bar & Annual Conference 2022
Panelists:
Hon. Jordan A. Harris
State Representative, House Democratic Whip
186th District Philadelphia County
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Benjamin D. Geffen, Esq.
Senior Attorney
The Public Interest Law Center
A. Michael Pratt, Esq.
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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