Lodge Act

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  10/17/2022
  

  The Democrats Haven't Learned the Lessons of the Nation's First Voting Rights Act

  by Ed Burmila

  Beginning with the failure of the Lodge Act in 1890, parties have treated voting rights as just one of many policy priorities competing for space on the agenda and scarce political capital, instead of a basic precondition of functioning democracy. Democrats today are repeating this mistake.