What is preclearance meant to prevent?

What is preclearance meant to prevent?

What is the process of preclearance meant to prevent? Unfair changes in voting laws and purging poll booths.

What voting changes did the 26th Amendment to the Constitution make?

The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

How can a state bailout of the preclearance?

how can a state “bail-out” of a preclearance provision?…

1. outlaws discrimination in job related matters.
2. forbids the use of voter registration and literacy requirements in any unfair or discriminatory manner.
3. used injunctions to fight discrimination.
4. used judicial action to overcome racial barriers.

Why do States purge voters from the Rolls?

One such technique is purging voters from the rolls for flimsy reasons. State election officials do, of course, have the obligation to try to keep voter registration records up to date by canceling registrations of people who have died, are imprisoned, have moved to another state, or become legally incompetent.

Should states use voter inactivity as an independent basis for eliminating registrations?

Given these methods of cleansing the voting rolls, there simply is no justification for also using voter inactivity as an independent basis for eliminating registrations. But some states like Ohio and Georgia persist in canceling registrations of voters simply because they have not voted recently and failed to return a mailed notice.

Is purging people from the Rolls unconstitutional?

But a minority of states go further and engage in a practice that ought to be seen as glaringly unconstitutional—purging people from the rolls solely because they have skipped voting in several consecutive elections and they have not responded to a letter asking them to confirm where they live.

Why do some states keep canceling voter registrations?

But some states like Ohio and Georgia persist in canceling registrations of voters simply because they have not voted recently and failed to return a mailed notice. There is every reason to be concerned that this practice continues because it has a political skewing effect.