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Title: H.R. 11552, Voter Registration Act -- Suggested amendments offered by Secretary of State White, [August 1976]
Identifier: camh-dob-001973
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The annotated summary outlines the amendments Texas Secretary of State Mark White proposed regarding the Voter Registration Act. White wished to exempt states that already had systems in place to allow voters to register by mail, while receiving federal funds for their own program. The Act was intended to create a federally mandated system that would allow voters to register by mail.

Title: Staff note, August 4, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001971
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The note discusses whether or not Texas Secretary of State Mark White has been in contact with Representative Richard Crawford White. Secretary White called Brooks in order to propose an amendment to the Voter Registration Act that would make Texas exempt from the Act, while receiving federal funds for their own program. The Act was intended to create a federally mandated system that would allow voters to register by mail. Texas already had a similiar program in place at the time.

Title: Staff note, August 4, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001970
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Texas Secretary of State Mark White called Jack Brooks to propose an amendment to the Voter Registration Act exempting Texas from the Act, while receiving federal funds for their own program. The Act was intended to create a federally mandated system that would allow voters to register by mail. Texas already had a similiar program in place at the time.

Title: Telegram from Mark White to Jack Brooks, July 30, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001976
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-07-30
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Texas Secretary of State Mark White proposes an amendment to the Voter Registration Act that would extend free postage to official voter registration information and absentee ballots.

Title: Texas Secretary of State Mark White -- Testimony on Voting Rights Extension, April 22, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001165
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Topic: Legislation, Civil Rights
Dates: 1975-04-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy distributed to the Texas delegation of the remarks of the Texas Secretary of State, Mark White, before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. The remarks are regarding the official Texas State opinion on the federal government sanctioning bilingual ballots, when Texas had already done so.