Assertion: voter's state | /r/CapableOf | pass law
Facets:
value: in the preceding decades
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the united states
type: LOCATION
value: at the turn of the century
type: TEMPORAL
value: in 2005
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 2005, the state passed a law allowing counties to choose whether their residents would vote by mail or in person, and in the years that followed, every county but one submitted all their ballots in an envelope.
text: In 2011, the Rhode Island legislature enacted a photo ID requirement, which was signed by governor Lincoln Chafee, making Rhode Island the most recent state controlled by Democrats to pass such legislation.
text: Historically in the United States, the southern states of the former Confederacy passed new constitutions and laws at the turn of the century that created barriers to voter registration, such as poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and complicated record keeping requirements.
text: But in the preceding decades, several states had passed laws supporting women's suffrage.