The Act grants federal intervention on state agencies and officials who attempt to prohibit eligible citizens from registering and going to the polls. In short, the federal government was, from then on, babysitter to polling jurisdiction in Alabama and several other southern states. The Johnson administration implemented the Voting Rights Act on a five-year trial basis. In 1970, it was extended another five years to 1975, then another seven to 1982, when it was then extended an additional 25 years. The Voting Rights Act, not yet permanent, comes up for repeal in 2007.
Voting is one of the most valuable rights of a U.S. citizen.
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