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November 3, 2026
September 12, 2020
February 15, 2019
RobSmith moved page Voting Rights Act to Voting Rights Act of 1965 over redirect
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July 29, 2016
July 13, 2016
February 9, 2015
October 26, 2014
July 14, 2013
June 30, 2013
→Renewal: the federal registrar system was repealed in the 2006 reauthorization
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→Renewal: fix for factual accuracy
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update, and remove factually wrong/misleading statements (grandfather clauses to block blacks from voting were ruled unconstitutional in Guinn v. U.S. (1915))
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February 27, 2013
January 2, 2013
→History: extraneous
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→History: segregationist opposition
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→History: numbers don't add up in this section; Robert Byrd was never a Republican.
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→History: punct
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→Clinton era violations of the Voting Rights Act: clarity
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→Clinton era violations of the Voting Rights Act: paras
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→Clinton era violations of the Voting Rights Act: de-wiki
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→Renewal: redundant
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→Clinton era violations of the Voting Rights Act: wiki
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→Politics
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intro
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December 12, 2012
→Politics: literacy test materials weren't always ballots; state constitutions regularly cropped up (especially because the passage could be selected on the basis of the registrant's race)
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Georgia was precleared, too
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better wording
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add note on how Texas has significantly more objections than other covered states
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Many (but not all) of these areas are in the South.
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The entire State of Texas was subjected to ongoing federal control of its elections for the indefinite future merely because Texas once printed its ballots in English rather than Spanish.
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Simply put, it enables liberals in Washington, D.C. to block reforms such as voter ID sought by local jurisdictions in 16 states.
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