There's One Way The Voting Rights Act Might Be Saved en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:10:48 -0400 Sahil Kapur Greg Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:27:43 -0500 It's unconstitutional. Congress can only dictate procedures to states in any manner on congressional elections not presidential elections. Even with congressional elections, the constitution explicitly states that the states come up with the procedures, and congress can adjust them if they want on a case by case basis by way of passing legislation. This law tries to change to the constitutionally specified requirement for congress to modify a states procedures (get the votes for a law) to "must submit for approval" and therefore would require an amendment. Blatant Federal power grab.