Legislative Record - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA)

June 20, 2022

voting policies

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Legislative Bill Jacket - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA)

NYVRA Provisions Memo

A1. Brnovich v Democratic National Committee

A2. Shelby County Ala v Holder

A3. Northwest Austin Mun Utility Dist No One v Holder

A4. Bartlett v Strickland

A5. Georgia v Ashcroft

A6. Johnson v De Grandy

A7. Thornburg v Gingles

A8. South Carolina v Katzenbach

A9. Citizens for a Better Gretna v City of Gretna La

A10. Holloway v City of Virginia Beach

A11. National Coalition on Black Civic Participation v Wohl

A12. National Association for Advancement of Colored People Spring Valley Branch v East Ramapo Central S

A13. Flores v Town of Islip

A14. Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v Fergus

A15. US v Village of Port Chester

A16. Brief for NY, CA, MS, and NC as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Shelby County v. Holder

A17. Brief for Amicus Curiae the City of NY et al., Shelby County v. Holder (U.S. 2013)

A18. Brief for NC, AZ, CA, LA, MS, and NY as Amicus Curiae, Nw. Austin Mun. Utility Dist. No. 1 (U.S. 2009)

A19. Pico Neighborhood Association v City of Santa Monica

A20. Wilson v Eu

A21. People ex rel Hotchkiss v Smith

A22. Hopper v Britt

B1. S. Rep 97-417 (S. Jud. Comm. Report on 1982 VRA Amendments)

B2. Freedom to Vote - John R. Lewis Act (H.R. 5746)

C1. Perry Grossman, Current Conditions of Voting Rights Discrimination - New York (Oct. 6, 2021)

C2. NYVRA White Paper - NYCLU & LDF (March 2022)

C3. NYVRA Organizational Endorsement Letter

C4. Landry and Berg, Impact of NY’s “Wrong Church” Ballot Rejection Rule in the 2020 General Election (May 20, 2021)

C5. Mississippi on the Hudson, The Black Institute (2018)

C7. Brooklyn Voter Purge Hit Hispanics Hardest, WNYC News (June 21, 2016)

C8. US DOJ, United States Announces Settlement with New York City Board Of Elections Resolving Improper Removal of Voters

C9. Wood, Budnitz, and Malhotra, Jim Crow in New York

C10. NYS Dep’t of Criminal Justice Services, NYS Adult Arrests and Prison Sentences by Race-Ethnicity in 2019

C11. Fulvia Vargas-De León, Protect the vote for all New Yorkers, N.Y. Daily News (Mar. 31, 2022)

C12. Aneja and Avenancio-Leon, The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality - Evidence from the 1965 VRA

C13. Aneja and Avenancio-Leon, Disenfranchisement and Economic Inequality - Downstream Effects of Shelby County v. Holder

C14. NAACP Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., The Cost (in Time, Money, and Burden) of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

C15. NAACP Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., Democracy Diminished - State and Local Threats to Voting Post Shelby County

C16. Richard L. Engstrom and Michael D. McDonald, The Effects of At-Large Versus District Elections on Racial Representation

C17. Trounstine and Valdini, The Context Matters - The Effects of Single-Member Versus At-Large Districts

C18. Issacharoff, Polarized Voting and the Political Process - The Transformation of Voting Rights Jurisprudence

C19. Richard L. Engstrom, Redistricting - Influence Districts--A Note of Caution and a Better Measure (May 2011)

C20. Butler, Constitutional and Statutory Challenges to Election Structures - Dilution and the Value of the Right to Vote (1982)

C21. Collingwood and Long, Can States Promote Minority Representation - Assessing Effects of the California Voting Rights Act

C22. Lawyers Committee of SF Bay Area, Voting Rights Barriers and Discrimination in 21st Century California

C23. Hertz, Analyzing the Effects of a Switch to By-District Elections

C24. Advancing Justice _ AAJC, Fair Elections Center, and NALEO Educational Fund, Policymakers’ Guide

C25. Richard L. Hasen, The Democracy Canon (2009)

C26. Kate Smith, Judge OKs new map, rules in Yakima County voting rights settlement, Yakima Herald (Oct. 29, 2021)

C27. Phil Ferolito, Yakima County agrees to settlement in lawsuit alleging disenfranchisement of Latino voters

C28. Cameron Probert, Franklin County agrees to settle voting rights lawsuit over Latino representation, Tri-City Herald

C29. Georgia Lyons, CLC Lawsuit Enabled 9,000 Ballots To Count in New York’s 2020 Election, CLC (June 10, 2021)

C30. AG Schneiderman Secures Agreement with Orange County BOE to Ensure Equal Access to Ballot Box For Minority And Student Vote

C31. Ruth Greenwood, Fair Representation in Local Government, 5 Ind. J.L. & Soc. Equality 197 (2017)

C32. Benjamin, At-Large Elections in N.Y.S., 5 Alb. Gov’t L. Rev. 733 (2012)

C33. New York Has Bad Voting Laws Too, Democracy Docket (Mar. 16, 2022)

C35. Juan Cartagena, Latinos and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 18 Nat’l Black L. J. 201 (2005)

Relates to the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York; establishes rights of actions for denying or abridging the right of any member of a protected class to vote; provides assistance to language-minority groups; provides for preclearance of certain voting policies

Legislative Bill Jacket - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA)

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2021-S1046E

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