Voting Rights Act Amendments

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Voting Rights Act Amendments - Title I: Revises the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by prohibiting States and political subdivisions from reinstituting voting eligibility tests for an additional ten years. Title II: Retains the requirement 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 with respect to which the determinations have been made as specified under this Act. Increases from five to ten years the determination period examined by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Attorney General in an action for declaratory judgement brought by a State against the United States under the provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Provides that no citizen of Spanish origin shall be denied the right under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his inability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language. Defines "test or device" to include any practice or requirement by which any State or political subdivision provides any ballot, voting or registration notices, regist…