Martin Luther King Jr. : Election Day is just around the corner . LBJ 's Today speech enjoined Southerners to support blacks ' right to vote . She says Congress , in a stroke , has eviscerated Voting Rights Act . Brazile : President Obama must convince polarized Congress to save the act by fixing it . Voter ID laws show threats to rights remain , and the Supreme Court must pass new act , she says .
Martin Luther King Jr. : LBJ 's Today speech enjoined Southerners to support blacks ' right to vote . She says Congress , in a stroke , has eviscerated Voting Rights Act . Brazile : President Obama must convince polarized Congress to save the act by fixing it . Voter ID laws show threats to rights remain , and the Supreme Court must pass new act , she says .