“As states across the South race to establish new voting restrictions, Virginia is bolting in the opposite direction…
Virginia, which for nearly 50 years had to submit changes to its elections to the federal government for approval under the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance requirements, has now effectively imposed the same covenants on itself, an extraordinary step for a state with a long history of segregation and racially targeted voting laws.”
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/virginia-voting-rights-northam.html

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