Letter to a congressional colleague advocating for an amendment to the Voting Rights Act

Identifier

PUA_MS147_471

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: Year(s)

1981

Date: Display

May 7, 1981

Subject

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Bills, Legislative

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Elections--United States--Law and legislation

Place

United States

Source

Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives

Copyright

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/

Contributor

Weaver, Jim

Wyden, Ron

Type

Text