How Data is Helping Us Understand Voting Rights After Shelby County | AshCast

How has the 2013 Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, which upended a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and opened the door to states and local jurisdictions to rewrite voting laws, impacted voter registration and turnout? In this discussion, our panel of academics and journalists explored the potential effects of Shelby County on American voting rights. Was the Supreme Court’s reasoning empirically sound? What are the pressing challenges and problems in terms of data gathering and analysis? What can be done to further protect voting rights? Speakers Include: - Maya Sen (Moderator), Ash Center Faculty Affiliate and HKS Assistant Professor of Public Policy - Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Government, Harvard University - Nate Cohn, Politics and Policy Writer, The New York Times - Bernard Fraga, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University