Better luck next year, Rhode Island Voting Rights Act. Here’s why it stalled this session. • Rhode Island Current

Better luck next year, Rhode Island Voting Rights Act. Here’s why it stalled this session. • Rhode Island Current

Comments from a special assistant attorney general in the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General are shown on a marked up copy of the Rhode Island Voting Rights Act. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)Over 100 progressive and good government advocates struck when the political iron was hot when they rallied at the Rhode Island State House on March 31 to urge the General Assembly to pass legislation to codify federal protections aga…