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Key Vote 89th Congress > Senate > Vote 69
Sponsor: ERVIN, Samuel James, Jr. (D-NC)
Description: TO AMEND THE MANSFIELD-DIRKSEN SUBSTITUTE FOR S. 1564, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT, BY PROVIDING THAT THE TRIGGERING PROVISIONS SUSPENDING LITERACY TESTS NOT APPLY IN ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF ANY STATE IN WHICH 95 PERCENT OF PERSONS OF VOTING AGE APPLYING FOR REGISTRATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE 1964 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WERE ADJUDGED LITERATE AND WERE REGISTERED.
Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 111, p. S11062;
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