Editorial: A campaign is underway to suppress the right to vote. It must be defeated

With midterm elections on the horizon, voters across America soon will weigh their choices. They should also be thinking hard about another critical aspect to this election season — the broad, systematic campaign underway to suppress access to the vote, a movement particularly directed at Americans of color.

The scale of that campaign, led principally by Republican-controlled state legislatures, is both disquieting and dangerous. Last year, 19 states passed laws restricting access to voting through an array of measures, from barriers to voting by mail to cumbersome voter ID requirements and restrictions on what