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title: "42 U.S.C. § 1973m"
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title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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section: "1973m"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1973m"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 1973m - Omitted

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section, Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 16, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 445; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, June 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 314, authorized Attorney General and Secretary of Defense, jointly, to make a study to determine whether laws or practices of any State or States impose preconditions to voting resulting in discrimination against Armed Forces personnel seeking to vote and to make a report to Congress not later than June 30, 1966, with the results of such study and recommendations for legislation.