Closed primaries are the New Jim Crow in Louisiana  ...Middle East

Do Black voters matter only if they are Republicans or Democrats? That’s the question Louisianans are facing as newly elected Gov. Jeff Landry has called for a special session of the legislature to tackle the way the state conducts its elections. Much of the national focus has been on whether their response will adequately comply with a recent federal judge’s ruling that currently drawn congressional boundaries violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters.   But the governor’s rushed attempt at closing the state’s primary elections poses an equally dire threat — disenfranchising almost a quarter of all Black voters in the state.  Louisiana has operated a u

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