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22, 581 Days of the Voting Rights Act, the Black Vote and Why Connecticut Isn’t an Outlier in the History of Voter Suppression For 22,581 days, the United States claimed equality through the Voting Rights Act. The vote of a Black person and the vote of a white person were supposed to carry the same value, like the quarter slipped into a jukebox for the chance to hear a song. But the feel of a Black quarter and a white quarter were never truly the same. The Black quarter carri