The Brennan Center sponsored a study which found that the racial turnout gap "has consistently grown since 2012 and is growing most quickly in parts of the country that were previously covered under Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was suspended by the Supreme Court in its 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder."
The authors state that "our primary models indicate that the white–Black turnout gap in these [covered] regions was about 5 percentage points greater than it would have been if the Voting Rights Act were still in full force, and the white–nonwhite gap was about 4 points higher."
Charlie Cooper
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