---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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](/usc/52/chstI/ch103.md) to [107](/usc/52/chstI/ch107.md) of this title shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise adversely affect the right to vote of any person registered to vote 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.