Pottinger, J. Stanley, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Rane, Hon. James W., presiding judge, Inferior Court, Henry County, Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and vice president, Americans for Democratic Action_. Rodriguez, Modesto, Mexican American Community Representative; Scott, Hon. Hugh, U.S. Senator from the State of Pennsylvania.. PREPARED STATEMENTS 535 112 726 255 6 813 186 789 268 Castillo, Leonel, controller for the city of Houston, Tex. 747 Cotrell, Dr. Charles L., professor of Political Science, St. Mary's Univer- 487 Glickstein, Howard A., director, Notre Dame Center for Civil Rights.. 221 528 14 Jordan, Hon. Barbara, a U.S. Representative from the State of Texas... Martinez, Vilma S., president and general counsel, Mexican American Mathias, Hon. Charles McC., Jr., U.S. Senator from Maryland....... 243 20 466 766 71 820 Mitchell, Clarence, director, Washington Bureau, National Association 51 Pottinger, J. Stanley, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division.. Rodriguez, Modesto, Mexican American Community Representative. Roybal, Hon. Edward R., a U.S. Representative from the State of Cali- 579 64 White, Hon. Mark, Secretary of State for the State of Texas... 291 STATE BILLS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Mississippi Senate bill: No. 2586, An act to change the voter registration No. 165. Requires that election materials and ballots must be printed in both Spanish and English in all elections conducted in political subdivisions in which 5 percent or more of the inhabitants are persons No. 542. Allows voters confined in jail to vote absentee, and deletes obsolete provisions of the election code which are to the contrary-- No. 784. Allows reduction of precinct sizes to 50 voters in counties under 100,000 population, and reduction to 25 voters in counties NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS "Government in the Sunshine, Open Records, Open Meetings, Emphasis: Texas," by Ronald L. Plesser and Peter J. Petkas.. "Open Government of Texas Praised in Council Report," from the Austin 367 New York State, on Behalf of New York, Bronx, and Kings Counties, Political South Carolina v. Katzenbach, opinion of Justice Black.- Weaver et al. v. Muckleroy et al., in the U.S. District Court, Eastern Division 782 248 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Affidavit, State of Mississippi, County of Madison, Ike Brown Affidavit, State of Texas, County of Bexar, Maria Del Rosario Castro------ Affidavit, State of Texas, County of Walker, Wendell II. Baker. Alaska, Senate District B, election district 2, sample primary election Applicability of Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Texas and other areas of the United States Southwest having large concentrations of Spanish- speaking voters, memorandum to J. Stanley Pottinger from MALDEF, Application for voter registration certificate, Harris County, Tex.. Black and white registration in the 11-State South, 1960-72.. Black elected officials in the United States as of April 1974 (as published by the Joint Center for Political Studies in the 1974 Roster of Black 255 Black elected officials in the South, 1968-74 (as published by the Voter Education Project, Atlanta, Ga., and the Joint Center for Political Blacks in elective office compared to population, voting age population, and all elected officials (as published by the Joint Center for Political Chart: Texas: Average voting participation in the 1972 election arranged by counties according to percent of Hispanos in the voting age popula- Counties and elections covered by Federal observers, 1966-1974-- Counties in Texas where less than 50 percent of eligibles were registered or Cross-examination of Hon. Pike Powers, Texas State Representative, by Examples of situations in which observers were authorized Excerpt from 1921 census of Mexico (Resumen del Censo General de Habi- tantes: De 30 de Noviembre de 1921; Departamento de la Estadistica Excerpts from Texas election laws, 1974-1975 edition, sections 5.20(a) and February 5, 1975, section 5 objection letter to Grenada, Miss., and cor- responding map; map of Tuskegee, Ala., reprinted from Gomillion v. List of all counties with over 5 percent Spanish heritage voting age popula- tion and percent voter participation in the November 1972 Presidential Miller, Hon. Andrew P., attorney general, Commonwealth of Virginia, testimony before the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary Committee on extension of the Voting 820 Map of proposed districts, Hinds County__ (Fold-out, facing page 139) Mississippi Law Journal. County Redistricting in Mississippi: Case 1972 voter registration and turnout, by race and national origin___. 694 694 Non-citizens in United States from Spanish language countries who re- 721 Number of section 5 objections interposed by the Department of Justice, 600 Number of changes submitted under section 5 and reviewed by the Depart- ment of Justice, by type and State, January-April 13, 1975 (updating of October 31, 1974, report from California secretary of state: Compliance 681 Procedures for the administration of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 601 Seventy-three counties designated as examiner counties. States and subdivisions covered by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Texas Penal Code, title 8, Offenses Against Public Administration, chap- 364 "The Effect(s) of At-Large Elections on the Political Access and Voting 497 Voter registration, by race, in the Southern States covered by the Voting 658 CORRESPONDENCE SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Bullock, Bob, former secretary of state of Texas, re: Assistance to 361 Bullock, Bob, comptroller of public accounts, Austin, Tex., to Hon. 247 Mahan, Joan S., secretary, State board of elections, Commonwealth Mahan, Joan S., secretary, State board of elections, Commonwealth of Virginia, to Hon. William L. Scott, U.S. Senator from Virginia, 817 Obledo, Mario, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Snyder, Anne D., chairman, Prince William County Electoral Board, Virginia, to Joan S. Mahan, secretary, State board of elections, Tatel, David S., and Tom Reston, to J. Stanley Pottinger, Assistant 363 771 Tatel, David S., and Thomas B. Reston, to J. Stanley Pottinger, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, January 24, 1975. Tatel, David S., and Tom Reston, to James Turner, Esq., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, re Applicability of the Voting Rights Act to Texas, February 19, 1975... Thomas, Hon. Lowell, Jr. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska, White, Mark W., Jr., secretary of state of Texas, re Voting of persons White, Hon. Mark W., Jr., secretary of state of Texas, to Ezekiel In support of the Extension of the Voting Rights Act, submitted by Joe Benites, president, League of United Latin American Citizens; Manuel Fierro, president, National Congress of Hispanic American Citizens; and Rafael Moreno, Tejano Political Action Committee___ Robinson, Jim, Mayor, Montgomery, Alabama, to Hon. William 782 531 362 363 364 564 S. 1279, introduced by Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan_ S. 407, introduced by Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan. No. 312, by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana to S. 1279- Amendments in the nature of substitutes by Senator John V. Tunney of League of Women Voters of the United States in support of S. 1279, May 16, Anaya, Hon. Toney, attorney general, State of New Mexico, May 7, 1975. Bernal, Joseph J., cochairman, National Urban Coalition, May 12, 1975. Cohen, David, president, Common Cause, May 9, 1975- 929 |