LDF Urges Support for D.C. House Voting Rights Act
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced its strong support for the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007 in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee. If passed, the Act would permanently provide residents of the District of Columbia with a voting representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition, the legislation would provide the State of Utah with an additional seat that would be retained through the 2010 census reapportionment process.
The bill would temporarily expand the size of the House of Representatives to 437 members, and represents a bipartisan effort to resolve the long-standing problem of voter disfranchisement of D.C. residents, without jeopardizing seats from other states.
"The Act represents a vital effort to correct a form of historic disenfranchisement that disproportionately affects significant numbers of African Americans living in the very seat of our federal government," said Ted Shaw, LDF Director-Counsel and President. "This bill will give representation to D.C. residents who, for far too long, have been unable to exercise the most basic right of citizenship: the vote."
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