Creating barriers to voting
John Diaz
Updated 8:04 pm, Friday, September 6, 2013
... Vote suppression.
"This is the No. 1 issue that Latinos and other communities should be worried about," Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, told the gathered journalists.
Sanchez knows a little something about vote-chilling tactics. In 2006, a mailer was sent to 14,000 registered voters with Latino surnames and foreign birthplaces telling them it was a crime for immigrants to vote in a federal election. Her Republican opponent was convicted of obstruction of justice in connection with the scheme ...
In a follow-up interview last week, panelist Pérez said the absence of the "intensity and breadth" of vote-suppression measures since the days of poll taxes and literacy tests can be attributed to the efficacy of the Voting Rights Act ...
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