The American Enterprise Institute has set up this page, whose first paragraph states: “In anticipation of congressional hearings on the reauthorization of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 2007, the Project on Fair Representation at the American Enterprise Institute, led by Edward Blum and Abigail Thernstrom, commissioned two social scientists to gather data on the state of minority participation in the election process in the jurisdictions covered by the statute.”