Essay on "Minority Representation in U.S. Politics"

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Similarly, by targeting early voting, same-day registration and voting, and Sunday voting, new restrictions in that regard were clearly intended to disenfranchise black voters who traditionally vote on Sunday after church services. New restrictions on the types of ID that can be used for voting include elimination of student IDs, obviously meant to disenfranchise students. New requirement for voter ID cards overwhelmingly affect the poorest voters, a disproportionate number of whom are minorities, because the only possible process for obtaining the necessary ID cards require state drivers licenses, or credit cards, or other forms of identification that may poor people simply do not have (Bouie, 20132). Even when they posses the necessary identification to obtain a voter ID card, poor people are much more heavily burdened by the obligation to take off from work during business hours and travel to the facilities where the IDs are issued (Bouie, 20132). Unfortunately, all of these transparent measures will be remembered by future historians as the Jim Crow laws of the early 21st century because they serve the same basic function as their namesake from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Bouie, J. "Virginia Republicans move forward with mass disenfranchisement

A Senate subcommittee has recommended a bill to rig the state's electoral vote allocation." The American Prospect (January 23, 2013).

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/virginia_republicans_move_forward_with_mas

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Bouie, J. "Republicans Admit Voter-ID Laws Are Aimed at Democratic Voters."

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