"voting" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It prohibits the federal government and the states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification.
- The Voting Rights Act prohibits states from applying any "voting qualification or prerequisite" in a manner that has a racially discriminatory effect.
- The Government says that such a voting qualification would be impossible and undemocratic.
- It had 50 A-roll seats with high voting qualifications (essentially for whites), and 15 B-roll seats with lower qualifications (for blacks).
- In 1840 the assembly changed the voting qualifications in a way that enabled a majority of blacks and people of mixed race (browns or mulattos) to vote.
- (This still fell shy of barring race as a voting qualification, and women and Indians were still left on the outside looking in.)
- The act also permitted the Parliament of South Africa to prescribe all other voting qualifications.
- A voting qualification that interacts with social conditions to cause an inequality in voting opportunities violates the Voting Rights Act.
- Seymour provides figures for the voting qualification of Brighton electors, following the Reform Act 1867.
- The delegates rejected that proposal and retained the clause in the Constitution that leaves national voting qualifications to the states.
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