Voter ID lawssubvert the election process:Research from the Brennan Center for Justice shows that the regulationsdisproportionately impact Blacks and Latinos, whilea newstudy from theNational Congress of American Indiansreports that these laws can decrease participation in Native American and Alaska Native communities.How can you fight discrimination at the pollsVoting-rights expert Keesha Gaskinstells you what you can do in the video below.
Gaskins, who issenior counsel atthe Brennan Center‘s Democracy Program at the New York University School of Law, spoke at Fair360, formerly DiversityInc’s recent Diversity-Management Best Practices From the Best of the Bestevent in New York City, where guest CEO and senior-executive speakers presented their best-practice strategies for implementing successful diversity management.
During her keynote, Gaskins explains how the laws impede on Americans’ voting rights and compares them with the era of Jim Crow laws(scroll down to view the video table of contents):
