Here is a column written by Russ Wigginton, who is President of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. BTW, I have been to the NCRM twice, and I highly recommend a visit to one and all.
However, I do wish people would keep separate the two very important issues of “Voting Rights” for people casting ballots in elections, and “Ballot Access,” which is the ability of candidates for public office to be listed on election ballots. This can easily instigate confusion in the public sphere, and both issues are sufficiently important to maintain their own monikers. There seems to be an unfortunate trend to use the phrase “Ballot Access” to describe Voting Rights. While I think this is usually done innocently, it is possible that it may be used sometimes to tacitly downplay the ballot access problems of some political parties and candidates.