Voter suppression, with specific reference to United States, refers to illegal/quasi-legal efforts made by relevant authorities and/or private groups to prevent certain population groups from exercising their constitutionally protected right, under various amendments, to vote, in order to influence the outcome of elections. The most obvious example is that of racial minorities, such as African Americans, being prevented from voting by means of naked terror during the period of racial segregation known commonly as Jim Crow. Voter suppression, of course, continues today. The forms it is taking is through different but still illegal/quasi-legal means—with the connivance of the U.S. Supreme Court via its egregious decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013)—such as racial gerrymandering; unnecessarily strict ID laws; reducing voting hours and polling places; purging voter rolls; deceptive announcements via social media, robo calls, etc.; deliberately providing inadequate number of ballots to polling places; eliminating weekend voting; shortening the time to return absentee ballots; and so on; and so on.