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Voting Rights Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (501 words) |
 | The United States Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the requirement that would-be voters take literacy tests in order to qualify to register to vote, and it provided for federal registration of voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible voters registered. |
| Although the right to vote regardless of race is guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment, some Dixiecrats argued that Primary elections were an internal party affair, and that the party was a "private club", so that the government had no authority over its criteria for membership and other factors relevant to participating in primary elections. |
| However, The Voting Rights Act and three constitutional amendments that prevent discrimination in granting the franchise, has established in United States Supreme Court jurisprudence that there is a "fundamental right" in the franchise, even though voting remains a state-granted privilege. |
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