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Voting no would leave the races nonpartisan. Superintendent Mark Rendell, with board members Matt Susin, and Gene Trent. The Tuesday, October 22 Brevard County School Board meeting in Viera.
Representative José E. Serrano (D-NY) introduced legislation, [32] dubbed the Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992, to extend the provision for 15 years, making its term coterminous with the other special provisions scheduled to expire in 2007. The legislation also expanded the coverage formula and the Section 203(c) bilingual ...
At the same time, the act requires list maintenance programs to incorporate specific safeguards, e.g., they must be uniform, non-discriminatory, in compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and not be undertaken within 90 days of a federal election.
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), is a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...
The League fought for the 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act [68] and in the 1990s was important in the passage of National Voter Registration Act of 1993, popularly known as the Motor Voter Act. [69] [70] The act requires states to offer voter registration at all driver's license agencies, at social service agencies, and through the mail.
In 2013, the Supreme Court effectively gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act that had required local election officials in areas with a history of discrimination to run their laws by the ...
Ahead of November, Vice President Kamala Harris pushes to revive the stalled John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a law aimed at preventing discriminatory practices during the voting process.
ERIC member states and withdrawn states as of July 2024 [5]. The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit organization in the United States whose goal is to improve electoral integrity by helping states improve the accuracy of voter rolls, increase access to voter registration, reduce election costs, and increase efficiencies in elections.