The Voting Rights Institute | Campaign Legal Center, Helping voting rights attorneys, future attorneys and experts combat discriminatory voting practices across the country.
When the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed, it provided two major mechanisms to combat discriminatory voting rights practices in the United States. First, Section 2 of the law provided an affirmative right of action to challenge discriminatory voting practices in court. Second, Section 5 required jurisdictions with a long his.