Voting Rights Act: Section 3 Summary

Losing Your Restriction Privileges

  • If an Attorney General puts any ruling in action to enforce the 15th Amendment, the Fed gets to send in examiners to make sure the state plays by the new rules.
  • The Fed doesn't get to send in examiners if the violations are few in number, or quickly fixed by the state itself. Sorry, Charlie.
  • If the Attorney General finds that the state was using tests to restrict voting based on race, that state isn't going to get any more tests, for however long the court sees fit.
  • If the Attorney General sees that any qualification at all is being used to restrict voting rights, that state doesn't even get to set qualifications until the court sees that they aren't using them crookedly.
  • So there.