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Looks at section 5 of the Voting Rights Act with the question in mind of whether or not it is still a necessary supplement to the act by systematically examining the letters of objection from the Department of Justice to all jurisdictions concerned, creating a database of these letters & examining the DOJ's perspective on the matter, how such provisions stemming from this purpose are pursued, the different types of changes the DOJ refused preclearance, the amount of objections it has interposed, & its methodology in refusing preclearance requests. Shows that the DOJ takes a preemptive view of its responsibilities as defined under section 5, not as simply weeding out discrimination after the fact, but more as providing a fecund ground for equality within voting. In tracing the DOJ's concern, the authors review the progress & setbacks of the act, as with a congressional review of such progress in 1969 & the lessening of DOJ's letters of objection in the past 2 decades, with the caveat that this is not reason enough to allow the section's legality to be retired, & so extrapolates the reasons for the lessening of the number of letters created within a background of a necessity for congress to consider modern facts surrounding the issue, while discarding those data of the past. Tables, Figures, References. J. Fullmer