"We can expect attacks rather than progress at the federal level, and states must take up the mantle to protect their own voters," says Adam Lioz, a senior policy counsel for the Legal Defense Fund, who leads the organization's campaign for more states to pass their own voting rights acts.
Several states have enacted state-level voting rights acts over the past two decades, with a growing focus on protections against racial discrimination in elections that do not rely on federal oversight.
So far, it's a small club of eight mostly blue states with voting rights laws that offer protections beyond those under the federal Voting Rights Act, indicating a grassroots response to federal stagnation.
A controversial ruling by a state judge in New York last month has resurrected the specter of all state voting rights acts potentially being found to violate the U.S. Constitution.
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