<Li> 1943: Chinese immigrants given the right to citizenship and the right to vote by the Magnuson Act . </Li> <Li> 1961: Residents of Washington, D.C. are granted the right to vote in U.S. Presidential Elections by the Twenty - third Amendment to the United States Constitution . </Li> <Li> 1964: Tax payment prohibited from being used as a condition for voting in federal elections by the Twenty - fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution . </Li> <Li> 1965: Protection of voter registration and voting for racial minorities, later applied to language minorities, is established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . This has also been applied to correcting discriminatory election systems and districting . </Li>

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