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Title: Fax from Mark White to Jack Brooks and Richard Crawford White, August 3, 1976
Identifier: camh-dob-001972
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012, White, Richard Crawford, 1923-1998
Topic: Elections, Legislation
Dates: 1976-08-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The fax was sent from Texas Secretary of State Mark White to Representatives Richard Crawford White and Jack Brooks. It comments on the success of voter registration by mail in Texas. White proposed 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: Letter from a Texas state legislator, June 16, 1960
Identifier: camh-dob-001067
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Elections
Dates: 1960-06-16
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Texas state legislator John Allen regarding proposed redistricting in H.R. 73.

Title: Letter from Ben Ramsey to Jack Brooks, October 4, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-002271
Creator: Ramsey, Benjamin Turner
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, Elections
Dates: 1965-10-04
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Ben Ramsey, Chairman, Texas Railroad Commission, requesting a copy of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and lamenting that Jack Brooks is no longer his congressman.

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.