* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U. S. Congress " We shall overcome " while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment expired unratified in 1985.

* The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment ( proposed in 1978 and expired in 1985 )

However, this provision was never enforced while the southern states continued to use various pretexts to prevent many blacks from voting right up until the passage of Voting Rights Act in 1965.

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

* Voting Rights Act

It achieved the moral force and support to gain passage of national legislation with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* 1965 – National Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

* August 6 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

The following year passage of the Voting Rights Act helped secure suffrage for all citizens.

Court challenges related to " one man, one vote " and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally provided the groundwork for Federal court action.

Washington's major congressional accomplishment involved legislation to extend the Voting Rights Act, legislation that opponents had argued was only necessary in an emergency.

Others, including Congressman Henry Hyde, had submitted amendments designed to seriously weaken the power of the Voting Rights Act.

During hearings in the South regarding the Voting Rights Act, Washington asked questions that shed light on tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting ( among them, closing registration early, literacy tests, and gerrymandering ).

As a result, the amendments were defeated, and Congress passed the Voting Rights Act Extension.

After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson's strong support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 angered white segregationists even more.

After the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was implemented, African Americans were protected in exercising their constitutional rights as United States citizens to register to vote in South Carolina without harassment or discrimination.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 received Royal Assent in February 2011 to allow the referendum to occur.

* July 17 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral ( Compulsory Voting ) Act 1924.

Voting was by simple majority.

Voting was usually by show of hands ( χειροτονία, kheirotonia, " arm stretching ") with officials judging the outcome by sight.

* 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U. S. Congress for use in federal elections.

For example, the politics of Australia are largely two-party ( if the Liberal Party and National Party are considered the same party at a national level due to their long-standing alliance ) for the Australian House of Representatives, which is elected by Instant Runoff Voting, ( known within Australia as preferential voting ).

Voting in the General Assembly on important questions – recommendations on peace and security ; election of members to organs ; admission, suspension, and expulsion of members ; budgetary matters – is by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting.

* February 14 – Voting machines are approved by the U. S. Congress for use in federal elections.

Voting is done by the viewing audience, the show's own participants, a panel of judges, or some combination of the three.

* Voting for women ( which was opposed by most other European nations );

Voting is by show of hands ; if, however, any liveryman so demands, balloting is held a fortnight later.

It was originally described in detail by Yale Law School professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres in their 2004 book Voting with Dollars: A new paradigm for campaign finance.

Final page of the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Johnson, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House

Voting is by weighted vote of each of the communities based on population, which is the reason why Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park, the two largest communities in Saratoga County, elect two Supervisors.

Voting is by the ' preferential system ', also known as instant-runoff voting.

Voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more – the equivalent of about £ 80 as of 2008 – and votes could only be cast at the county town of Lancaster, by a public spoken declaration at the hustings.

Voting on issues by initiative may be available in some jurisdictions but not others.

One proposal made by many, which would have greatly simplified the current system, was to introduce a double majority of both member states and population, to replace the current Qualified Majority Voting ( QMV ) system.

All other lawful US Citizens disenfranchised ( prior voting rights actively removed by State or Federal Government ) have had their Voting Rights restored, except for Washington, DC Citizens.

In 2006 the U. S. Department of Justice filed suit under the Voting Rights Act alleging that the local Democratic party chairman, Ike Brown, had conspired to orchestrate " relentless racial discrimination " against white voters.

On January 7, 2009, the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) filed a civil suit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 over the incident at the Philadelphia polling place.

* The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost from Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

The Board also includes the chief of the Office of Public Integrity of the Department of Justice, the Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights ( DOJ ), and the director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program of the Department of Defense.

Justice Department approval ( which is known as preclearance ) is required under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in certain states that have had a history of racial barriers to voting.

* The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost from Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

On February 17, 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, in collaboration with Florida Legal Services and the Florida Justice Institute, launched the Equal Voting Rights Project.

Reyes played a small role in this This was the outcome of several complaints with the US Department of Justice, Voting Section, regarding violations of the Voting Rights Act which requires elections to have language information, education and interpreters ( physically ) at the polls.

* Addressed the Voting Section of the U. S. Department of Justice, the Texas Commission on Judicial Efficiency, the Lincoln Day dinners of the Alaska Republican Party in Juneau and Anchorage, the annual conventions of the American Political Science Association, National Association of Counties, Unitarian Universalism, and National Conference of State Legislatures and several groups of foreign dignitaries through the United States Information Agency.

In December 2005, the Washington Post reported, " Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo " uncovered by the newspaper.

*" Evidence of Political Manipulation at the Justice Department: How Tom DeLay's Redistricting Plan Avoided Voting Rights Act Disapproval ", by Mark Posner, FindLaw. com Legal News, December 6, 2005.

" However, in 1981, the federal Justice Department ruled that this provision was inconsistent with the Voting Rights Act.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division enforces the UOCAVA and the Voting Rights Act.

That plan did not get clearance from the US Department of Justice under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.