Hasen described the bill as "probably the most suppressive voting measure passed in the United States in decades".
Suppressive voting laws have met resistance at the polls and in the courts.
Not long after, North Carolina passed what voting rights advocates have called the most suppressive voting law in decades.
In 2013, the state's Republican-controlled General Assembly passed what is widely considered one of the most suppressive voting laws in the country.
Richard Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the University of California, Irvine, wrote in November that letting the decree expire would allow the RNC to push suppressive voting policies.
These suppressive voting laws are exactly the type of backward-looking, partisan, and anti-participation moves that were rejected in 2012. .
"We welcome anyone who stands up to these suppressive voting measures, but at the same time, we think it's important that people not view this as a partisan issue".
As soon as the Supreme Court released its ruling, states were free to move forward with suppressive voting measures, including those that had previously been barred as racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.
Re "Suppress the Vote?," by Bob Herbert (column, Aug. 16) and "Saving the Vote," by Paul Krugman, (column, Aug. 17): Reading these back-to-back columns about the overtly suppressive tactics being used in Florida in advance of the November elections, I believe that it is imperative that black voters in Florida be encouraged, supported and aided in obtaining and submitting absentee ballots.
Now, right-wing interests are closing the voting curtain on millions of Americans in states across the country through suppressive voter ID laws.
