§ 17-210. Preclearance. 1. Preclearance. To ensure that the right to\nvote is not denied or abridged on account of race, color, or\nlanguage-minority group, the enactment or implementation of a covered\npolicy by a covered entity, as defined in subdivisions two and three of\nthis section respectively, shall be subject to preclearance by the civil\nrights bureau or by a designated court as set forth in this section.\n 2. Covered policies. A "covered policy" shall include any new or\nmodified voting qualification, prerequisite to voting, law, ordinance,\nstandard, practice, procedure, regulation, or policy concerning any of\nthe following topics:\n (a) Method of election;\n (b) Form of government;\n (c) Annexation of a political subdivision;\n (d) Incorporation of a political subdivision;\n (e) Consolidation or division of political subdivisions;\n (f) Removal of voters from enrollment lists or other list maintenance\nactivities;\n (g) Number, location, or hours of any election day or early voting\npoll site;\n (h) Dates of elections and the election calendar, except with respect\nto special elections;\n (i) Registration of voters;\n (j) Assignment of election districts to election day or early voting\npoll sites;\n (k) Assistance offered to members of a language-minority group; and\n (l) Any additional topics designated by the civil rights bureau\npursuant to a rule promulgated under the state administrative procedure\nact, upon a determination by the civil rights bureau that a new or\nmodified voting qualification, prerequisite to voting, law, ordinance,\nstandard, practice, procedure, regulation, or policy concerning such\ntopics may have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on\naccount of race, color, or language-minority group.\n 3. Covered entity. A "covered entity" shall include: (a) any political\nsubdivision which, within the previous twenty-five years, has become\nsubject to a court order or government enforcement action based upon a\nfinding of any violation of this title, the federal voting rights act,\nthe fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution, or a\nvoting-related violation of the fourteenth amendment to the United\nStates constitution; (b) any political subdivision which, within the\nprevious twenty-five years, has become subject to at least three court\norders or government enforcement actions based upon a finding of any\nviolation of any state or federal civil rights law or the fourteenth\namendment to the United States constitution concerning discrimination\nagainst members of a protected class; (c) any county in which, based on\ndata provided by the division of criminal justice services, the combined\nmisdemeanor and felony arrest rate of voting age members of any\nprotected class consisting of at least ten thousand citizens of voting\nage or whose members comprise at least ten percent of the citizen voting\nage population of the county, exceeds the proportion that the protected\nclass constitutes of the citizen voting age population of the county as\na whole by at least twenty percentage points at any point within the\nprevious ten years; (d) any political subdivision in which, based on\ndata made available by the United States census, the dissimilarity index\nof any protected class consisting of at least twenty-five thousand\ncitizens of voting age or whose members comprise at least ten percent of\nthe citizen voting age population of the political subdivision, is in\nexcess of fifty with respect to non-Hispanic white individuals within\nthe political subdivision at any point within the previous ten years;\n(e) any political subdivision in which a board of elections has been\nestablished, if such political subdivision contains a covered entity\nfully within its borders; or (f) any board of elections that has been\nestablished in a political subdivision that is a covered entity pursuant\nto paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this subdivision.\n 4. Preclearanc
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