Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 105 — Supplemental Provisions
§ 10508. Voting assistance for blind, disabled or illiterate persons
Statutory text
Any voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write may be given assistance by a person of the voter’s choice, other than the voter’s employer or agent of that employer or officer or agent of the voter’s union.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pub. L. 89–110 title II § 208 · 79 Stat. 437
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 10508
(Pub. L. 89–110, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 97–205, § 5, June 29, 1982, 96 Stat. 135.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–110, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 97–205, § 5, June 29, 1982, 96 Stat. 135.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1973aa–6 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 97–205, § 5, , 96 Stat. 134, provided that this section is effective .
Credits
(Pub. L. 89–110, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 97–205, § 5, , 96 Stat. 135.)