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Q: Paragraph: As originally enacted , the Voting Rights Act also suspended the use of literacy tests in all jurisdictions in which less than 50 % of voting - age residents were registered as of November 1 , 1964 , or had voted in the 1964 presidential election . In 1970 , Congress amended the Act and expanded the ban on literacy tests to the entire country . The Supreme Court then upheld the ban as constitutional in Oregon v. Mitchell ( 1970 ) , but just for federal elections . The Court was deeply divided in this case , and a majority of justices did not agree on a rationale for the holding .
Question: when did congress outlaw literacy tests altogether as a prerequisite to voter registration

A:
1970