Mississippi. Alabama. and Louisiana vote in every election between now and August 1985. each of those States will still remain under the Voting Rights Act and will continue to be required to submit every change in its voting procedure to the Attorney General of the United States. who was elected by nobody. for his approval. There is no way. under the provisions of H.R. 6219. that any of these covered jurisdictions can escape the burdensome provisions of the act because of a recent opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States saying. in effect. that the modest literacy test employed in Virginia In 1964 is conclusively presumed to have been used to discriminate against minorities. This is in conflict with the original intent of the Congress to permit the covered jurisdiction to overcome a rebuttable presumption of discrimination. Mr.
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