The 2010 election has come and gone, and we are reminded once again that literally thousands of would-be voters were squeezed out of the process. That’s because hundreds of public assistance and disability service agencies across the country are not complying with their duty to register voters–a duty imposed by the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
Although this administration was ushered in with great promise in the voting rights arena (After all, the President himself was a voting rights lawyer many years ago!), the Justice Department has not filed one lawsuit against a state that is not offering voter registration in its public agencies.
That’s zero lawsuits in two years. Before Congress spends a lot of energy conceiving and debating elaborate new voter registration schemes, maybe we have a right to expect a little enforcement of the laws we’ve got.
Read more on 15 years of NVRA enforcement here.
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