Complicating matters, however, Mr. Sipple said, are new federal election requirements that candidates appear in their own spots to voice approval for them, tying them more closely to their attack ads than ever before.
The bilingual election requirements have remained controversial, with proponents arguing that bilingual assistance is necessary to enable recently naturalized citizens to vote and opponents arguing that the bilingual election requirements constitute costly unfunded mandates.
Similarly, registration rates for language minority groups increased after Congress enacted the bilingual election requirements in 1975 and enhanced them in 1992.
Starting in the 1970s, the Attorney General commonly raised Section 5 objections to dilutive voting changes, including discriminatory annexations, redistricting plans, and election methods such as at-large election systems, runoff election requirements, and prohibitions on bullet voting.
Section 4(b) contains a "coverage formula" that determines which states and local governments may be subjected to the Act's other special provisions (except for the Section 203(c) bilingual election requirements, which fall under a different formula).
Students face many challenges that make it especially difficult to make it to the polls such as meeting registration deadlines, obtaining absentee ballots, and procuring identification that meets election law requirements.
Earlier this month, Republicans seized on the administration's abrupt decision to delay for one year, until after the 2014 elections, the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide health coverage for their workers or pay a penalty.
Rather than comply with a Supreme Court ruling upholding federal election identification requirements over more stringent state-enacted standards, Arizona and Kansas are planning on two tiered elections in which the federal standards would be used for federal offices while their state standards would be used for state and local elections.
The Chargers said they have had three formal meetings with the city -- the third taking place Tuesday -- and numerous informal conversations, but could not find a way to create a stadium ballot measure for December that complied with the California Environmental Quality Act and met election law requirements.
Many states have no post-election auditing requirements at all, and those that do are often insufficient, severely undermining our ability to identify and correct an attack.
