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In 1970, Senator Ted Kennedy proposed amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to lower the voting age nationally. [12] On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections. [13] In his statement on signing the extension ...
Wyoming was the first state to give women voting rights in 1869. 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment prevents state governments and the federal government from denying the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era began soon after.
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [59] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [62] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64]
That was a little over a hundred years ago, in the 20th Century. Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment gave men of all colors, races, and previous servitude status the right to vote.
Since 1999, only about 20 proposed amendments have received a vote by either the full House or Senate. The last time a proposal gained the necessary two-thirds support in both the House and the Senate for submission to the states was the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment in 1978. Only 16 states had ratified it when the seven-year ...
Disputes over youth suffrage have historically been linked to partisan efforts to restrict voting. The 1971 passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US. Constitution, which gave young people the vote at age eighteen, spurred conflicts with regard to where students should vote. Those who opposed allowing students to vote in their college ...
The 1975 amendments also expanded voting rights for minority groups that traditionally had fallen outside the Act's protections. Civil rights organizations representing Hispanic , Asian American , Native Alaskan , and Native American interests argued before Congress that such groups often were the victims of discriminatory voting practices ...
Voting Rights Act of 1965; Long title: An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) VRA: Nicknames: Voting Rights Act: Enacted by: the 89th United States Congress: Effective: August 6, 1965: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 89–110: Statutes at Large: 79 Stat ...