Key Vote 89th Congress > Senate > Vote 73

Date: May 25, 1965

Result: 31-64

Vote Subject Matter: Civil Liberties / Domestic Social Policy

Sponsor: ERVIN, Samuel James, Jr. (D-NC)

Bill number: S1564

Description: TO AMEND THE MANSFIELD-DIRKSEN SUBSTITUTE FOR S. 1564, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT, BY ELIMINATING THE COVERAGE OF THE TRIGGERING PROCESS WHICH SUSPENDED LITERACY TESTS WHERE LESS THAN 50% OF THOSE REGISTERED IN A STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION HAD VOTED IN THE 1964 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 111, p. S11066;

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