By Tom Lopach, President and CEO of Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Allen v. Milligan, declaring what Black Alabamians have long known – that voting power was being suppressed. The court upheld a lower court decision that Alabama’s congressional maps illegally weakened the power of Black voters and ordered them redrawn. After decades of distorted district lines, Alabama now has more representative ...
