Federal intervention in these States rights matters was supposedly justified because of its limited duration. No such pretenses are made in the proposed legislation. The act would be extended for another decade. Literacy tests and similar tests would be permanently banned. In addition. coverage would be expanded to include new jurisdictions under the rubric of "language minorities." The new trigger mechanism provides that the act shall apply in jurisdictions where less than 50 percent of the population registered or voted in the 1972 Presidential election and at least 5 percent of the citizens are members of a single language minority group. The group is defined as persons who are American Indlans.
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