“[Jeff] Sessions was "someone who thinks that the VRA ought not to have ever been in existence" because, for him, it was an "intrusive piece of legislation." Thus, in a move that flipped the Voting Rights Act on its head, his investigation targeted only counties where African Americans had won office.” RacismAmerican HistoryCivil Rights MovementUs HistorySuffrageVoting Rights ActDisenfranchisementJeff Sessions Book:One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“The ACLU and NAACP went right after the core of the issue—there was no voter fraud. Therefore, there was no state interest at stake—certainly nothing that could warrant this assault on the Fifteenth Amendment. It "bear[s] repeating," they asserted, that Indiana had "not identified even a single instance of voter impersonation fraud occurring at the polls in the history of Indiana" and no one in the state has "ever been charged" with that crime. Ever. Moreover, when the bill was being drafted, "no evidence of in-person impersonation fraud was presented to the legislature," making SEA 483, at best, a solution in search of a problem.” RacismAmerican HistoryUs HistorySuffrageIndianaVoter SuppressionVoter FraudDisenfranchisement Book:One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy