PRADO, Circuit Judge:
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 represents a watershed development in the civil rights movement toward equality in voting—and thus in achieving equality in our democratic order. Because the right to vote is "a fundamental matter in a free and democratic society" and "preservative of other basic civil and political rights," Reynolds v. Sims,
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