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Key Vote 89th Congress > Senate > Vote 70
Sponsor: ERVIN, Samuel James, Jr. (D-NC)
Description: TO AMEND THE MANSFIELD-DIRKSEN SUBSTITUTE FOR S. 1564, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT, BY AUTHORIZING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL BY CERTIFICATION TO EXONERATE A STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, WHERE TRIGGERING HAD SUSPENDED A LITERACY TEST, WITHOUT REQUIRING THE STATE TO SEEK A DECLARATORY JUDGMENT IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 111, p. S11062;
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