federal sets voting qualifications on the state level.
federal sets voting qualifications on the state level.
who sets voting qualifications on the state level?
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congress also add new provisions to the act. two new provisions exclusively regulated presidential elections: one created uniform rules for voter registration and absentee voting, and the other prohibited states from applying their own durational residency requirements as voting qualifications. influenced by the draft of males at least 18 years of age to fight in the vietnam war, senator ted kennedy convinced congress to add a provision guaranteeing citizens at least 18 years of age the right to vote in federal, state, and local elections. in a statement explaining his decision to sign the amendments, nixon expressed doubts that this provision was constitutional, and he instructed the attorney general to expedite litigation to test its constitutionality. later that year, the supreme court, in "oregon v. mitchell" (1970), struck down the part of the provision lowering the voting age in state elections as unconstitutional; the court upheld only the part of the provision that lowered the voting age in federal elections. the decision precipitated the ratification of the twenty-sixth amendment the following year, which lowered the voting age in all elections to 18.
amendments to the voting rights act of 1965