Voting Rights Acts and The Shelby Decision

Alabama after Shelby

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, another Republican, also immediately instated his state's voter ID law

Mississippi after Shelby

Mississippi's Republican secretary of state, Delbert Hosemann, told the Associated Press in November that the state was going to start implementing its voter ID law by the June 2014 elections

Local changes after Shelby

Polling spots in predominantly poc communities have been moved. In Texas, Galveston County eliminated virtually all of the black- and Latino-held constable and justice positions in the county, a move that was previously blocked under Section 5.

Texas Two hours after Shelby County v Holder

Republican Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that the state's voter identification law—which had previously been blocked by a federal court—would be immediately implemented.

North Carolina about one month after the Shelby decision

Republicans in North Carolina pushed through a package of extreme voting restrictions, including ending same-day registration, shortening early voting by a week, requiring photo ID, and ending a program that encourages high schoolers to sign up to vote when they turn 18

South Carolina after Shelby

South Carolina was able to implement a stricter photo identification requirement

Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

Struck down provision of Voting Rights Act of 1965 (section 5) requiring states engaged in past discrimination to get federal pre-clearance before instituting changes in voting laws or practices; allowed restrictive state voter ID laws to go forward (Roberts Court)

Virginia in Oct after Shelby

Virginia purged more than 38,000 names from the voter rolls