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Article I, Sections 2 and 4, of the Constitution
place in the Congress the power and the duty to protect by
appropriate Laws-elections for office under the-Oovernment-of
the United States. With respect to elections for state and
local office, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution pro-
vides that the right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
state on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude. And the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits any state
from making or enforcing laws which abridge the privileges and
immunities of citizens of the United States and from denying to
any person the equal protection of the laws. The courts have
held that these prohibitions operate against election laws
which discriminate on account of race, color, religion or
national origin.
To implement these provisions of the Constitution
Congress passed many years ago a voting statute, 42 U.S.C.
1971 (R.S. 2004), which provides that all citizens shall be
entitled and allowed to vote at all elections, state or federal,
without distinction based upon race or color. It was the duty
of Congress under the Constitution and its amendments to pass
legislation giving full protection to the right to vote and
undoubtedly it was the intent of Congress to provide such
protection by passing 42 U.S.C. 1971.
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