Voting Rights Voting rights has always been Americas biggest issue. Ever since America passed the Voting rights act in 1965 it seemed that the issue was taken care of. But Republicans are trying to find other ways to keep minorities from voting. The ways they are keeping minorities from voting is by redistricting towns or parts of cities so that the edge goes to Republicans. Another way is by changing early voting from 14 days to 7 days. I think we are going to have to update the Voting rights act.