Talk:Voting Rights Act of 1965

"Qualification" vs "Eligibility"

I reverted an edit that substituted the term "eligibility" for "qualification." In the context of the voting rights debates of the 1960s, "eligibility" generally referred to meeting impersonal, demographic-type, voting requirements such as citizenship and age. "Qualification" referred to the concept that beyond citizenship and a minimum age, voting should be restricted to those who met some additional standard as an individual such as the ability to pass a "literacy test" or that their grandfather had been eligible to vote (the "grandfather clause"). The voting rights act did not address eligibility requirements, but did overturn arbitrary state-mandated "qualifications." Brucehartford (talk) 00:01, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

To help address this, I've rewritten it to say "qualifications and prerequisites to voting", which I believe cover both concepts to which you refer. There is debate right now in federal courts (principally in Kobach v. Elections Assistance Commission) about what constitutes a "qualification" and what, if anything, constitutes a "procedural prerequisite" (with the former referring to the impersonal voting requirements you mention, like citizenship, age, residency, felon status, etc.; and procedural prerequisites referring to things like voter registration, possession of voter ID, etc.). The Supreme Court may soon determine with finality whether what some courts refer to as "procedural prerequisites" are in fact different from "qualifications". –Prototime (talk · contribs) 19:07, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Broken external link

The external link to Text of original Act and 1970, 1975, and 1982 amendments does not work. Nick Levine (talk) 18:23, 10 October 2020 (UTC)