Roanoke group calling for Congressman Goodlatte to restore Voting Rights Act

ROANOKE (WSLS10) - Members of the Roanoke Chapter of the NAACP plan to protest Congressman Bob Goodlatte on Monday. Organizers said they want him to hold a judicial review and restore The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The president of the NAACP Roanoke chapter Brenda Hale said the Supreme Court struck down a key component of the act. Nine states including Virginia can change election laws without federal approval, like moving polling places she said.

"If you shut down their polling sites then make it hard for them to get an i.d. make it hard for them to try and go vote, that is an injustice," Hale said.

She said that can open the door to discrimination for those who want to exercise their right to vote.

"We need to protect them and the future generations to come, that's why we're on this mission, and we will not stop until his conscience gets touched and he calls the hearing,"  Hale said.

Congressman Bob Goodlatte has not said anything on whether on not he will hold a meeting.