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Panel Supports Renewal of Voting Rights Act
Panel Supports Renewal of Voting Rights Act
Sunday, October 16, 2005
By Kaukab Jhumra Smith

WASHINGTON — Key provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act (search) must be renewed, said a former Republican senator heading a panel created to document the need for the measures.

Sen. Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland, the honorary chairman of a nonpartisan commission investigating voting rights abuses nationwide, said the Voting Rights Act in 1965 changed the status of black voters in American society.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172395,00.html
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