Suspending The Lists, and Other Clarifications
- Keeping those voting lists going will only stop once the Director of the Census determines that more than fifty percent of non-white citizens are registered to vote, and there's no reason to think that they'll be stripped of their voting rights any time soon.
- States can get the ball rolling on this procedure by petitioning the Attorney General to get this check-in process going.
- Any criminal contempt charges are under section 151 of the Civil Rights Act's jurisdiction.
- No court other than the District Court of DC or a court of appeals can issue any jurisdiction on this act—enforcement's a federal issue in this case.
- Voting means a bunch of things: any actions that involve taking a vote, such as registration, listing, or any kind of prereq for voting, as well as casting the ballot itself, having the ballot counted, and having it count towards the total number of votes.
- "Political subdivision" used here is any county, parish, or other place that conducts its own voting.
- In order to enforce Sections 4 and 5, subpoenas to get witnesses into the courtroom can be served in any judicial district in the U.S., but only at a maximum of a hundred miles away from the court where the hearing is taking place.