Article 5 of the voting rights

The voting rights act of 1965 prohibited practices - such as collection and literacy tests - duties, that bother to vote a person's ability. Article 5 shall apply to the courts point sustained injury or a story of such practices. Article 5 5Section vote Act prohibited jurisdictions make any changes in the process of voting without the permission of the Attorney General of the United States or the United States District Court. Amendments to the vote or registration procedure which is not approved, cannot be applied. Article 4 specifies the criteria, which determine in any jurisdiction that restrict "Test or device" maintained "covered courts" in accordance with section Five.Covered JurisdictionsSection 5 first applied was to register or vote on November 1, 1964. If less than half the population from this date or less than half of you in the election of 1964 - voted the voting age within a Division, it as a"covered jurisdiction" would be considered element during the life cycle of the election of 2010, throughout the States of Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia have been covered by section 5. Since then the Arizona and Texas become covered five jurisdictions.Temporary the ExtensionsSection, temporary measure was adopted, shall expire five years after the adoption. In 1970, there has been renewed with a formula of "covered courts" very similar. In 1975, providing was again renewed but the formula has been expanded to prohibit the "minority" barriers to registration and voting. Congress section 5 for another 25 years 1982, expanded and then again in 2006.