It’s also clear that, with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, a major legal and political paradigm shift has taken place. The responsibility for upholding the right to vote has moved off the broad shoulders of the state and been placed squarely on the backs of the individual citizen. States apparently don’t have the time to find an accessible polling site, yet Native Americans were given just a few weeks to establish a physical street address if they wanted to vote. Georgia can use a racially discriminatory registration system to put citizens in electoral limbo, but it’s the American who
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