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8 J.L. Soc'y 75 (2007)
The Persistence of Racial Bias in Voting: Voter ID, the New Battleground for Pretextual Race Neutrality

handle is hein.journals/jls8 and id is 217 raw text is: The Journal of Law in Society Vol. 8:2 THE PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL BIAS IN VOTING: VOTER ID, THE NEW BATTLEGROUND FOR PRETEXTUAL RACE NEUTRALITY By: E. Earl Parson, B.A., J.D., LLM* Monique McLaughlin, B.A., J.D.** I. Introduction The right to vote is the cornerstone of our representative form of government. It is the one right, perhaps more than any other, upon which all other constitutional rights depend for their effective protection. It must be zealously safeguarded.' *E. Earl Parson, Faculty Member, University of Wisconsin School of Law, Legal Writing and Research Department. B.A., University of Oklahoma, J.D., Howard University, LLM, University of Wisconsin School of Law. Former Professor, Legal Studies, University of the Virgin Islands. I would like to thank my colleague, Professor Richard Monette, Faculty Advisor for the Great Lakes Indian Law Center of the University of Wisconsin School of Law for his invaluable advice. **Monique McLaughlin, B.A., Boston University, J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law. Former Chief Public Defender, United States Virgin Islands. Bar Review, Lecturer, New York Bar Examination. 1 Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, proposed Civil Rights Legislation, before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Senate Judiciary Committee, (February 14, 1957), http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/CivilRightsCivilRightsAct/StatementA GonCRLegislation 14Feb57pgO2.pdf (last visited on March 30, 2007). In his presentation, he announced President Eisenhower's plan to create a bi-partisan commission to investigate voting irregularities.

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