G. K. Butterfield actually said...

I remember it so very well. I had just finished high school a few weeks before the VRA was passed.

these laws do, in fact, pose a disproportionate, negative, strong, consistent depreciation of minority votes.

It was supported and demanded, actually, by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the time, right after the Selma to Montgomery massacre.

there is no widespread threat of voter fraud in our elections.