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The voting rights act of _____ protected the right to vote, struck down voter-suppression tactics like the literacy test, and empowered the attorney general and the u.s. district court of washington, dc, to weigh any voting change in suspect areas for its potentially discriminatory effect.

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The correct answer is Voting Rights Act of 1965. This law was implemented by the late president Lyndon Johnson, wherein he believed that African Americans had also their right to exercise their votes, in short this law is a law that prevents discrimination in terms of voting.
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