Fact sheet for the report Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022, published March 13, 2024: “A Brennan Center study of nearly 1 billion voter file data points finds the following:

• The nationwide racial turnout gap — the difference in voting rates between white voters and voters of color — has grown consistently since 2012.
• That gap has grown faster in the places that, until the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, had been covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which provided for federal oversight to ensure that voting changes were not discriminatory (a process called preclearance).

A Growing Racial Turnout Gap

• In 2020, the racial turnout gap was more than 12 percentage points. For Black voters, it was almost
  15 percentage points. Had voters of color voted at the same rate as white voters, 9 million more ballots
  would have been cast. In 2022, the racial turnout gap was 18 percentage points, meaning 14 million
  more ballots would have been cast. Between 2010 and 2022,
• the gap between white Americans and Americans of color grew by 5 percentage points to 18 points.
• the gap between white Americans and Black Americans grew by 8 percentage points to 16 points.
• the gap between white Americans and Latino Americans grew by 4 percentage points to almost 22 points.