It's simple: The Voting Rights Act was passed to outlaw racial discrimination in elections, including the drawing of districts in ways that effectively blocked minority groups from electing their preferred candidates.

Since the Supreme Court started gutting the VRA more than a decade ago, vote suppressors in state legislatures have used the redistricting process to silence minority voters by gerrymandering them into electoral irrelevance. Now the state of Georgia is fighting in court to win the right to do it with impunity and codify voter suppression into their maps forever.

We must spread the word and continue to fight for fair maps and our right to vote. RUSH $25 or more right now to fuel our work to protect voting rights in Georgia and beyond >>

Bad news for all of us, John: The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act, asking a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much harder to prove minority votes have been illegally diluted.

Georgia is trying persuade the judges to make up a new, harder-to-prove standard that could hobble Voting Rights Act lawsuits, less than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court turned back a separate challenge from Alabama to the VRA.

From the AP: "A lawyer for the state asked a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta to overturn a lower court that required lawmakers to draw more Black-majority electoral districts. Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger argued in court filings that the Voting Rights Act is being misused to bolster Democratic election chances and that white voters prefer Republicans for nonracial reasons."

Opponents of voting rights are hell-bent on dismantling the Voting Rights Act piece by piece and we can't let them. We have to fight in Georgia, Alabama, and beyond to protect our fundamental rights

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Integrity First Voter Action Project is dedicated to expanding ballot access and increasing voter participation across the country.

Since the Supreme Court gutted key provisions in the Voting Rights Act, extreme politicians have taken advantage to pass harsh laws that restrict access to the ballot box. These restrictions particularly affect disadvantaged communities and people of color. It’s our goal to bring awareness to these laws wherever they may crop up and organize voters to take action to ensure the right to vote is available to everyone in their states and communities.

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