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Supreme Court upholds voter ID law
The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, the toughest and first to be set in the country. The law requires citizens to present proper photographic identification in order to place their vote. -
First African American president
Barack Obama is elected as the first African American president of the United States -
Part XX passed
New York passes the law known as Part XX that states officials must count incarcerated voters as residents of their pre-arrest home addresses, helping to put an end to prison-gerrymandering.
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President Obama re-elected
Barack Obama is re-elected to a second term as President. -
Elimination of Section IV of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. The elimination of Section 4 means that states will not have to have changes in their voting laws cleared by the federal government or court before implementing them. -
Online voter registration
Online voter registration now available in 20 different states. -
50th Anniversary of the Bloody Sunday
The 50th Anniversary of the Bloody Sunday. Thousands of marchers and activists gathered in Selma, Ala. to commemorate the original march to the bridge in 1965.
