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(Continued from Page 1) local area were born in Virginia and have lived in the state all their lives, the latest Government tabulation shows. Compared with the amount of moving about that has been taking place in other parts of the United States, where only bb percent of the population are still living in the state of their birth, this represents real •stability. - fn the- State of Virginia, b8 percent are solisted.
On the other hand, within the borders of their own state, Rappahannock County residents are quite mobile, a fiveyear Census Bureau study shows. 18 Approximately 10.5 percent of the local population above age 5 moved into the county from other parts of the state during that period and 21.b percent moved to new addresses within the county. Consideration is now being given in Congress and in some state legislatures to easing the voting eligibility rules affecting people who have lived in new localities for a relatively short time. Now before Congress is a bill entitled “Residency Voting A ct of 19b7.” It would reduce the qualifying period in Federal elections to a mere two months. It would set September 1st as the uniform qualifying date. In nearly every state, the local residence requirements for voting range from six months to two years. In New York it is now three months.
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