The Voting Rights Act has been gutted From 2011-2015, 468 new voting restrictions were introduced in 49 states. There is a battle taking place all across the country to make it harder to vote.
Ari Berman, author of the new book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He spoke to Democracy Now! about the status of ballot access 50 years since the signing of the Voting Rights Act. Watch the interview at DemocracyNow.org.
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