Representative Lynn Westmoreland , a former builder who represents a jigsaw of predominantly white areas just south and west of Atlanta , 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 .
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