It seems to me. gives them the wrong information. It ought to be. as the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois specifies. that the surveys shall only include a count of the citizens of voting age by race. color. and national origin. There is no way we can ever through this law permit the noncitizen to vote. Therefore. it seems to me these amendments are wise. They do not hurt the legislation at all and ought to be adopted. In this way the Attorney General and the Director of the Census will be required to count only citizens in determining registration and voting percentages. It would be a most unjust imposition on the States to bring the force of the Voting Rights Act to bear on them when the reason a minority group is disenfranchised Is that its members are illegal aliens. resident aliens or unnaturalized persons. It would be a tremendous dilution of the Federal Governments resources should it have to direct its energies in many jurisdictions which merely have a large body of noncitizens. I urge my colleagues to approve this amendment.
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