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Alaina C. Beverly

Alaina Beverly is assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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Commentary

Voter Photo ID – Legislators Should Look Before They Leap

By Alaina C. Beverly

State legislators are jumping on the voter identification bandwagon so quickly that these voter “integrity” initiatives have become a modern tool of voter suppression, much like poll taxes, white-only primaries, and grandfather clauses of the past. Whether deliberately or unknowingly, state legislatures are casually proposing measures that will have a devastating impact on poor, African-American…

State legislators are jumping on the voter identification bandwagon so quickly that these voter "integrity" initiatives have become a modern tool of voter suppression, much like…

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