TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 10 P29

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 10 P29 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 268 VOTING to place qualified persons on the list of eligible voters. The act waived accumulated poll taxes and abolished literacy tests and similar devices in those areas to which the statute applied. In addition the act under Section 5 required the seven states to obtain preclearance from the justice department or the . District Court for the District of Columbia before making changes in the electoral system. The 1982 extension of the act revised this provision extending it to all states. This means that a voter may challenge a voting practice or procedure on the ground that it is racially discriminatory either by intent or by effect. Motor Voter Laws A state has the right to require bona fide residency as a prerequisite to the exercise of the right to vote in its elections. The courts have also upheld durational residency requirements how long a person must have resided in the state for voting. Beginning in the mid-1970s however many states began to abandon durational requirements making it possible for a new resident to register to vote when he applies for a state driver s license. This motor voter statute was first enacted in Minnesota Minn. Stat. Ann. 1992 in 1992. By year s end 27 states had some form of motor voter law. congress eliminated durational residency requirements for voting with the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 42 . 1973gg et seq. . The act allows anyone over the age of 18 to register to vote while obtaining a driver s license. Apportionment Guaranteeing an individual the right to vote does not necessarily mean that the voters in a particular district have the same voting strength as voters in another district. Since the 1960s however the implementation of the concept of one person one vote has meant that unreasonable disparities in voting strength have been eliminated. Nevertheless racially discriminatory dilutions of voting strength have led the federal courts to become intimately involved in the .

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