We Shall Overcome...Again

So the Voting Rights Act enforcement provisions have been overturned and the pre-implementation vetting by the DOJ is no longer in force in the Old South...

I suspect that this is going to be one of those instances of unintended consequences which supporters of the decision will come to rue in the election cycles ahead. 

I imagine we'll see....

• More race-baiting in electioneering
• More gerrymandering in state houses to guarantee white aka "conservative" majority districts
• More attempts to disqualify folks of color from participating in elections
• More challenges by "conservative" poll judges of folks' voting credentials
• More efforts to improve voting "efficiency" by reducing availability of polling places and their operating hours
• More efforts to ban or minimize oversight of polling places by citizen monitors

And in response I expect we'll also see...

• Efforts to apply the VRA provisions throughout the USA - increasing budgets for the DOJ to perform the increased scrutiny
• Increased scrutiny of state house gerrymandering by media AND political activists
• More litigation to overturn redistricting maps
• More public investigations into who owns the legislators
• More counterstrike challenges of conservative voters credentials at polls
• More demand for online and mail-in ballot voting only
• Increasing legions of citizen polling place monitors and increased reports of voting infractions
• More accusations of racism, classism, and general nastiness in the public sphere

God have mercy on the USA...we're gonna need it (even more than we have so far)...