our report documented that the. there have been other studies that have shown the greater increase in u-turnout in african-americans voting the more likely a state is to pass or introduce laws cutting back on voting. our report found this as well. the higher the increase in hispanic population growth, the more likely the state is to cut back on voting. none of the states have a high percentage. not even 1% of societier fraud. nobody is for voter fraud. we have good systems in place to prevent against voter fraud. the courts are finding the laws just cut back on voting. hundreds of thousands. this is rough stuff. 50 states were partially or wholly covered by section 5 of the voting rights act. since the supreme court gutted the act, nine of the states have imposed new voting restrictions.
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have led to fraud convictions. voter fraud is a flat out myth. the laws are a solution to a problem that simply does not exist. and we can t and won t let them roll back our rights. joining me now is wendy wiser of the brennan center, the lead author of that new report the state of voting in 2014. and democratic strategist jamal simmons. thanks for being here. thank you. wendy, your report found seven states where african-american turnout was highest in 2008 are rolling back voting rights. what was your analysis of why this is happening? we have seen start thing in 2010 a real significant move in states across the country to cut back and race is a significant factor explaining where and why it happens.
the report looked at 12 states with the highest population hispanic growth between 2000 and 2010. you alluded to that. nine of them have imposed new voting restrictions. is this a political strategy to dis enfranchise a key voting demographic? you know, we are less concerned about why this is happening than how it is happening and whos this is impacting. it s very clear that this is motivated by discriminatory purposes and whos it is impacting is african-americans, latinoss, young voters, older voters and veterans. they are disproportionately affected by the laws. we are seeing it in the courts as a significant factor in the push-back against these laws. what really bothers me, jamal, is in 2012 when they started in a lot of states, as
you know i toured the states. i watched people standing in line for hours. as i was in florida with bishop curry, in ohio and other places, watching the lines. at the same time we are preaching democracy around the world while we are standing up with bogus state laws, making people suffer to exercise their right to vote. this is outrageous to me. absolutely. in fact, if they want to go affair voting it would be getting a proper number of voting machine s in districts where you know there will be a large turnout on election day. instead you have very few voting machines and long license and poll workers who aren t the best trained and can t help people get through it. i remember being in states when there were stories of sheriffs sitting outside a polling place holding shotguns as african-americans were on their way in to vote, trying to scare people from going in.