“The Section 5 preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act is the most remarkable and important civil rights law that we have,” Clarke says. “No law has done more to address the problems that have long plagued our political process.”
Still, critics of Section 5 argue that efforts to re-evaluate covered and non-covered jurisdictions are necessary. Areas of recent voter controversy such as Ohio and most of the counties in the state of Florida are not covered under Section 5.
A special three-judge panel of the
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