Over the last 20 years, 各州在投票箱前设置障碍，实施严格的选民身份法, cutting voting times, restricting registration, and purging voter rolls. These efforts, 当最高法院在2013年削弱投票权法案时，这个威尼斯真人得到了提振, 阻止了大量合格选民参加投票, hitting all Americans, 但却给少数族裔带来了特别的负担, poor people, and young and old voters.
布伦南中心在各个方面都反对压制投票. 我们的诉讼阻止或削弱了一些最糟糕的压制计划, 包括德州严格的选民身份法. 我们开创性的研究帮助赢得了公众舆论的斗争. We have shown that voter fraud and illegal voting — often cited to justify regressive voting laws— aren’t a systematic and widespread occurrence; racial minorities are much more likely than whites to lack accepted voter ID; and that there is a growing threat of voter roll purges, 这有可能剥夺大量合格选民的选举权.
