Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1981

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1981 - Title I: Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prohibit any State from imposing voting practices "for the purpose or with the reasonably foreseeable effect" of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race, color, membership in a language minority, failure to comply with any test or device, or to pay a poll tax. Requires a State or local government to provide voting registration material in a language other than English whenever: (1) more than five percent of resident citizens of voting age are members of a single language minority group; and (2) the rate of nonminority voter registration exceeds the rate of the language minority registration by ten percent or more. Permits an aggrieved person or the Attorney General in any case raising an issue of general public interest to bring an action in Federal court for violations of this Act. Authorizes the court to retain jurisdiction for such period as it deems appropriate upon a finding that violations have occurred on a statewide basis or within a political subdivision. Subjects a State or local government to preclearance requirements upo…