Voters still believe America needs the Voting Rights Act—and more disagree than agree with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the landmark law.
New polling from YouGov Blue shared exclusively with The Downballot finds that a wide majority of voters agree that the VRA—which the pollster’s questionnaire explains “was passed in 1965 to end racial discrimination in voting by eliminating practices like literacy tests, poll taxes, and drawing districts that reduce the voting strength of minorities”—is still needed.
The poll also shows that a plurality of Americans oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to cripple the VRA in Louisiana v. Callais.
