Memo from Lani Guinier RE: Next Voting Rights Registration Strategy Meeting

Correspondence
April 12, 1984

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  • Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Memo from Lani Guinier RE: Next Voting Rights Registration Strategy Meeting, 1984. dcad7912-e692-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/901a5557-9351-495f-9a0c-468d670d0aa4/memo-from-lani-guinier-re-next-voting-rights-registration-strategy-meeting. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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MEMO TO:

FROII :

RE

CIyde
Ron
GaiI

Lani

Next Voting
Meetin

Lowell
JoeI
Jean

Registration Strategy
at 4:00

Penda
Peter
Julia

Rights
ril 23

Please be prepared to report on the results of the
factual investigation in your states on Monday, April
23 at 4:00. The information on specific counts within
your state should include both the actual procedures
for registration within the county as well as the reg-
istration rates by race if at all possible. At least
try to get the numbers of registered and unregistered
people per county or whatever information can be cor-
related with the specific practices to show the gap
between white and black registration or the nexus
between low registration rates and restrictive regis-
tration procedures. We are also interested in whatever
political inteltigence you can provide regarding the
possibility of entering into a consent decree with
specific state officials.

ft would be most helpful if you would try to organize
the types of registration practices that you are doc-
umenting by county into three categories, as follows:

1. Where there is permissive state legislation,
for example, discretionary appointments of
deputy registrars, but no one exercises that
discretion to deputize.

2. Where the discretion to deputize is exercised
selectively, either from county to county or
within a county based on the type of group seek-
ing appointment.

3. Where rules across the board are restrictive,
e.g., inconvenient hours are mandated by state
6t5tutes, a limit is placed on the number of
forms given out or satellite registration is
limited to fixed sites.

LG/r

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