Why Is It Still So Hard To Vote In The US?

3,177 views · Published 27 June 2014 · 3:15 · Indexed 13 October 2026

Channel: AJ+ · 2014 · News & Politics

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This year, half of Americans will find it harder to vote than in previous elections. Specifically if you're young, elderly, low-income, Black or Latino.  Fifty years after civil rights activists registered voters in Mississippi in what was called Freedom Summer, voting rights are being quietly dismantled. Thanks in part to the Supreme Court's reversal of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, states are now imposing some of the most restrictive voting laws in history on millions of Americans. Are you one of them?

Photo Credits: Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, McCain Library and Archives, The University Southern Mississippi.

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