It prohibits the federal government and the states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification.

The Voting Rights Act prohibits states from applying any "voting qualification or prerequisite" in a manner that has a racially discriminatory effect.

The Government says that such a voting qualification would be impossible and undemocratic.

It had 50 A-roll seats with high voting qualifications (essentially for whites), and 15 B-roll seats with lower qualifications (for blacks).

In 1840 the assembly changed the voting qualifications in a way that enabled a majority of blacks and people of mixed race (browns or mulattos) to vote.

(This still fell shy of barring race as a voting qualification, and women and Indians were still left on the outside looking in.)

The act also permitted the Parliament of South Africa to prescribe all other voting qualifications.

A voting qualification that interacts with social conditions to cause an inequality in voting opportunities violates the Voting Rights Act.

Seymour provides figures for the voting qualification of Brighton electors, following the Reform Act 1867.

The delegates rejected that proposal and retained the clause in the Constitution that leaves national voting qualifications to the states.