Voter Suppression: Efforts made by individuals or groups to discourage or prevent certain individuals from voting through tactics such as voter ID laws, restrictions on early voting, and voter purges.
Voting Rights Act of 1965: This legislation aimed at combating racial discrimination in voting by prohibiting literacy tests and other practices used to disenfranchise minority voters.
Gerrymandering: The manipulation of electoral district boundaries for political advantage. It involves drawing district lines in a way that benefits one political party over another.