“Louisiana NAACP President Calls for Emergency Legislation to Extend the Voting Provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act”

See this press release, which begins: “JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ — Some provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are set to expire in 2007. Ernest Johnson, Sr., president of the Louisiana NAACP, calls on President Bush and the Congress to pass emergency legislation to extend those provisions for another 25 years in light of the recent disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.”
It is not clear to me precisely what the relationship is between the hurricane and renewal of the preclearance provisions of the VRA.

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