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‘Our voice is our vote’: Delaware enacts voting rights legislation banning race-based discrimination in elections 33%
By Sarah Mueller42%
8/7/2026, 2:25:55 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Availability Heuristic, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 36.6% saturation with 116 hits. Analysis detected 594 faulty-reasoning hits from 317 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34.4% and a BS Rank of 33% (20,334 of 30,213 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.30% of the article peer group.
Delaware Gov.
Matt Meyer signed voting protections into law Thursday, the anniversary of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act, at an historic Black church in Wilmington.
The Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act keeps key provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act that has all but been eviscerated in recent years by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
It protects voters from discrimination, voter suppression, vote dilution, intimidation, deception and language barriers to access.
“The signing of this bill will allow us to bridge participation gaps in voting, which do exist, fight back against federal threats to the franchise and ensure that voters pick their politicians, not the other way around,” said Andrew Bernstein, civic engagement counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware.
Delaware and New Jersey are the only two states this year that have passed state-level John Lewis voting rights acts in the wake of the U.S.
Supreme Court’s Louisiana v.
Callais decision.
The court ruling weakened Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which is the provision that allowed, or sometimes required, the creation of majority-minority districts.
Legal experts say the landmark civil rights law has been effectively gutted.
State lawmakers, advocates and community leaders at the ceremony celebrated the achievement of the 1965 Voting Rights Act of the late Congressman John Lewis and other civil rights leaders, who endured beatings and other violence in their fight against racial discrimination.
House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown is the first Black woman in the state’s history to hold that position.
But she said it wasn’t that long ago when Black Americans weren’t allowed to even register to vote.
“It’s only been 61 years since it became illegal to deny someone the right to vote based on race or color,” she said.
“It’s only been 61 years since literacy tests were outlawed.”
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