Lynn Westmoreland
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Lynn Westmoreland Westmoreland
Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a former builder, acknowledges that the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone achievement of the civil rights movement, was necessary in its day to register blacks and overturn decades of laws preventing them from voting. Mr. Westmoreland is one of many conservative Republicans who have serious problems with the law. Mr. Westmoreland said he intended to propose an amendment to the reauthorization bill that would make preclearance nationwide.