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.

Butterfield reflects on his memory of the Voting Rights Act's passage.

05/23/2021

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Thank you for all the work that you have done in the voting rights space.

Let me finally ask you this. Let's take a bigger case.

The default is not enfranchisement. The default is that you have to prove that you are eligible and deserve to vote.

If you sell cocaine, you go to prison for four years. You get out of prison. You are a convicted felon.