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In June 2013, the U

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In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional. This section had required

A) that governments identified in Section 4, which had a history of voting discrimination in the 1960s, needed federal government permission to change voting procedures.
B) that governments with a history of 1960s voting discrimination use a uniform and standard set of federally approved voting procedures.
C) that governments in the South, which had a 1960s history of discrimination, provide affirmative action policies to integrate more African Americans into elected offices.
D) that all governments in the United States implement special voting and registration procedures designed to increase African American voter turnout.
E) that governments identified in Section 4, which had a history of discrimination in the 1960s, reserve a specific number of elected offices for African Americans.

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