Hillary Clinton Statement on the 51st Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2016. Today, on the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Hillary Clinton issued the following statement:

“Fifty-one years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, Americans are now facing the most systematic effort to curtail those rights since the era of Jim Crow. Make no mistake, new voter restriction laws in seventeen states have replaced poll taxes and literacy tests as a thinly veiled attempt to achieve an old…