---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 10311"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "10311"
heading: "Impairment of voting rights of persons holding current registration"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/10311"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Voting Rights"
  - "Chapter 103 — Enforcement of Voting Rights"
---

# §10311. Impairment of voting rights of persons holding current registration


Nothing in [chapters 103 to 107](/usc/52/ch103..107.md) of this title shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise adversely affect the right to [vote](/usc/52/10310.md?p=c-1) of any person registered to [vote](/usc/52/10310.md?p=c-1) under the law of any State or political subdivision.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 17, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 446; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, June 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 314.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973n of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.