Invidious and pervasive voting discrimination has not come to an end, as Chief Justice Roberts suggested with his complaint that "Congress did not use the record it compiled to shape a coverage formula grounded in current conditions".
Shelby County's suit contends that the VRA is no longer appropriate: when Congress reauthorised the act for 25 years in 2006, it failed to show the existence of "pervasive voting discrimination", "electoral gamesmanship" and "widespread intentional discrimination on the basis of race".
In court filings, Ms Jennings attributed the undervote to "pervasive malfunctioning of electronic voting machines".
When Congress nearly unanimously reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it relied on abundant evidence that there is still pervasive, persistent, even Jim Crow-style voting discrimination in the South and elsewhere — including in Shelby County and other parts of Alabama.
The answer: Partisan voting is pervasive on the lower federal courts.
The auxiliaries, who earn a respectable 800 euros a month, or $1,100, to work 20 hours a week, are among about 64 Comitini residents employed by the town, the product of an entrenched jobs-for-votes system pervasive in Italian politics at all levels.
Justice Souter said, for instance, that the government cannot draw voting districts "without pervasive race consciousness" but "that is not unconstitutional".
According to Rachel Donadio and Steven Erlanger, Greeks are approaching the vote with "a pervasive sense of dread" that any government that comes to power will fail to resolve the political and economic turmoil that has made their lives unimaginably bitter and unstable, that daily threatens the country's future — and the financial stability of Europe itself.
I would be astounded if your wife still trusts you after your pervasive online trysts, but the vote's still out on that one.
Two pervasive and persistent myths about racial voting in the modern South are behind the notion that Mr. Obama might win in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi.
When he signed the bill into law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in a statement, "Despite the pervasive climate across the U.S. to restrict voting rights, Connecticut has moved in the opposite direction".
