Ive heard it suggested that the Voting Rights Acts--or certain key provisionsneed not be reauthorized because its very success has rendered it obsolete. This is a fallacyand I urge you in the strongest possible terms not to fall for it. The Voting Rights Act must be reauthorized because it works! African Americans in the South were prevented from voting by a battery of tacticspoll taxes. literacy tests that were for blacks only. and the crudest forms of intimidation. From the Southwest to some urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest. Latinos were discourage from voting by subtler but also effective techniques that exploited the vulnerabilities of lowincome newcomers. for whom English was a second language.
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Latinos are vulnerable due to being low-income newcomers with limited English proficiency.