Key Vote 89th Congress > Senate > Vote 73
Sponsor: ERVIN, Samuel James, Jr. (D-NC)
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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