PSY 25400 Lecture Notes - Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Literacy Test
16 Apr 2021
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Section 4: lays out the formulas for how the justice department enforces section 5 of the voting rights act. Section 5: requires that the states identified with a history of discrimination obtain approval from the federal government before they can make changes to their election law. Preclearance is defined as the process of seeking u. s. department of justice approval for all changes related to voting. But we can"t say that discrimination is absolutely. 40 years has passed by with changes in voter registration and turnout. Nation is no longer divided along those lines, yet the voting rights act continues to perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting and ingenious gone for sure as it"s still witnessed from all around the world. Government was needed in a era of racial discrimination in the mid 1900s and were the only ones to have such power to create a difference in society"s balance of equality.
