The Age-Old Effort to Block Americans From Voting

ProPublica: “For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has been paid to one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America: the effort to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read — a group that amounts to about 48 million Americans.

“Time and again, federal courts have struck down such restrictions as illegal and unconstitutional. Inevitably, states just create more.”