Letter to a congressional colleague advocating for an amendment to the Voting Rights Act
Title
Letter to a congressional colleague advocating for an amendment to the Voting Rights Act
Description
A letter to a congressional colleague from U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin regarding a proposed amendment to the Voting Rights Act. In his letter, Congressman AuCoin advocated for the proposed amendment, which aimed to "introduce a pragmatic, practical, and non-intrusive solution to the problem caused by early release of Presidential election results." The proposed amendment would have closed all presidential election polls by 11:00pm EST on election day and would have prevented official election results from being released untill all polls were closed. The letter was also signed by Oregon Congressmen Jim Weaver and Ron Wyden. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
Creator
AuCoin, Les
Date: Display
May 7, 1981
Identifier
PUA_MS147_471
Subject
Place
Copyright
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Source
Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives
Contributor
Weaver, Jim
Wyden, Ron
Type
Text