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A 25-year extension of the VRA is signed by President Ronald Reagan. [31] 1983. Texas repeals the lifelong prohibition against voters with felony convictions and institutes a five year waiting period after completing a sentence to vote. [63] 1985. Texas changes the five year waiting period to two years for people with felony convictions. [63] 1986
The bill was passed into law on January 8, 1867, over Johnson's veto. [1] A related act allowing black men to vote in organized territories of the United States was passed two days later on January 10, 1867. [6] "The Georgetown Election – The Negro at the Ballot Box" (Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1867)
The Supreme Court of the United States struck down a one-year residency requirement to vote in Dunn v. Blumstein 405 U.S. 330 (1972), [ 103 ] ruling that limits on voter registration of up to 30 to 50 days prior to an election were permissible for logistical reasons, but that residency requirements in excess of that violated the Equal ...
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Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males (about 6% of the population). [1] However, New Jersey also gave the vote to unmarried and widowed women who met the property qualifications, regardless of color. Married women were not allowed to own property and hence could not vote. [2] [3]
On December 27, 2020, seeking to change results expected from counting of electoral votes required to take place on January 6, 2021, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert and several Arizona Republicans filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court seeking a declaration that the Electoral Count Act was unconstitutional and that Vice President Pence ...
The 1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1866, and September 6, 1867. They occurred during President Andrew Johnson's term just one year after the American Civil War ended when the Union defeated the Confederacy.
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