Voting Rights Act Amendments

Increases to 15 years (now 10 years), under the Voting Rights Act, the provision that no citizen shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his failure to comply with any test or device in any State or political subdivision unless the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in an action for a declaratory judgement brought by such State or political subdivision has determined that no such test or device has been used during a specified period preceding the filing of the action for the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.