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Elaine Meckler

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March 21, 2013
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Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

Regarding the letter to the editor on March 13 written by Karen Schwartz, president of the League of Women Voters of Western Nevada County, I would like to ask her to look at the facts. You can get these facts if you check Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. You can see the full text at http://justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/about.php. Fact 1 — Section 5 freezes election practices or procedures in certain states until the new procedures have been subjected to review, either after an administrative review by the United States attorney general, or after a lawsuit before the United States district …

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