Universal Voter Registration Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5400 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 447 páginas

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Página 101 - ... any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting or registration for voting (1) demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstrate any educational achievement or his knowledge of any particular subject, (3) possess good moral character, or (4) prove his qualifications by the voucher of registered voters or members of any other class.
Página 3 - Union, and ordered to be printed [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed In italic] A BILL To...
Página 100 - ... voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting...
Página 111 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Página 188 - ... to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such, election...
Página 67 - The President is vested with the executive power of the Nation. The importance of his election and the vital character of its relationship to and effect upon the welfare and safety of the whole people cannot be too strongly stated.
Página 105 - The requirements of sections 4(f)(4) and 203(c) apply with regard to the provision of "any registration or voting notices, forms, instructions, assistance, or other materials or information relating to the electoral process, including ballots.
Página 111 - ... different from that in force or effect at the time the proceeding was commenced shall be enforced unless and until the court finds that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Página 66 - times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives.' It cannot be doubted that these comprehensive words embrace authority to provide a complete code for congressional elections, not only as to times and places, but in relation to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and rorrnpt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns...
Página 113 - ... (2) The date of final adoption of the change affecting voting. (3) Identification of the authority responsible for the change and the mode of decision (eg, act of State legislature, ordinance of city council, redistricting by election officials). (4) An explanation of the difference between the submitted change affecting voting and the existing law or practice, or explanatory materials adequate to disclose to the Attorney General the difference between the existing and proposed situation with...

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