This video is a collaboration between the Center for American Progress and the Legal Defense Fund.
This is the sixth video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress and the Legal Defense Fund. In this video, William Roberts, senior vice president of Rights and Justice at the Center for American Progress, and Ruth Greenwood, assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School, explain voter suppression. Voter suppression has had severe impacts on Americans of color, but the federal Voting Rights Act and other laws have helped protect voters. However, in recent decades, the Supreme Court has weakened federal legislation and put more voters at risk of suppression. State voting rights acts can replenish, if not expand, voting rights protections.