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A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide a uniform time for the closing of the polling places in all elections of the electors of the President and Vice President of the United…

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A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide a uniform time for the closing of the polling places in all elections of the electors of the President and Vice President of the United States, to prevent the release of election results before polling places have closed, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 14, 1981 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
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Became law
Dec 15, 1981
Committee Hearings Held.
May 14, 1981
Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
May 14, 1981
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to require all presidential polling places to close no later than eleven o'clock p.m. eastern standard time on election day.

Establishes penalties for early release of such election results by any election official or other person having election-related responsibilities.

What's happening now December 15, 1981

Committee Hearings Held.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Wyden, Ron
Oregon · May 14, 1981
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3595: A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide a uniform time for the closing of the polling places in all elections of the electors of the President and Vice President of the United States, to prevent the release of election results before polling places have closed, and for other purposes.. 97th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/97-HR-3595/
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"H.R. 3595: A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide a uniform time for the closing of the polling places in all elections of the electors of the President and Vice President of the United States, to prevent the release of election results before polling places have closed, and for other purposes.." 97th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/97-HR-3595/.
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H.R. 3595, 97th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/97-HR-3595/.
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[H.R. 3595: A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide a uniform time for the closing of the polling places in all elections of the electors of the President and Vice President of the United States, to prevent the release of election results before polling places have closed, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/97-HR-3595/)
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