Several States Look To Pass Their Own Voting Rights Acts

State VRAs
Written By Veniece Miller

In December 2021, Black voters and a handful of civic groups sued Baltimore County, Maryland under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The county had just completed redistricting with 2020 census data but the plaintiffs, including the Baltimore County NAACP, requested a map that better reflected the demographic changes of the past decade.

Veniece Miller
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