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ee —_— ca mcint to the principle that 2 co. ys:-istel statute protecting eee eT ainst private interference beZsre che voting stage is necessary g s . . 4 prop.x legislation under Aotisis 7, Secticn 4, whenever it is 1 ms vcasonably related to “protecticn of cre integrity" of the federal Ex parte Siebold involvec i co.v-iction of state election citicers for ballot-stuffing in & feieral election. The Court had before it the Enforcement Act Fron viichn Section 1971 was derived. The statute contained a nurber o2 ext.nsive voting and registration regulations, including a provisic.. U2: the appointment of federal . election supervisors. These susicviciirts were authorized: "to cause such names to be registarcc ac caey may think proper to be ec marked" In sustaining the velicizsy, of the legislation under Article I, Section 4, the Court consnted: ~ tc elect representa- z election of "ZX. is the duty of tives to Congress. th3se revresentatives > United States. Ezates is no less conc than the State goverja. bound to stand b éuties are violated en committed. It is civect feithl 1] performance, py thé of the.r respective duties. owed as well to the Unites 100 U.S. 386 icers of election, 1ofe@ duties are stes as to the State," In Yarbrough the Court hes defore it the question whether foe Congress could protect civil rict. zinst private interference, g E v specifically klan aggression i: shs isom of intimidation of voters. i “Yerbrough and eight other merbers o2 = Georgia klan were indicted fer conspiring to intimidate a Xagrs in the exercise of his right . ; SO tc vote for 2 congressional reprcse.cetive.—it_was! shown that . = - - a . = . a ' t.ey used physical violence and «nat they went in disguise BPOH t..g public highways. They wera convicted under the section of tha ; ; that was * foeeacant Bet of 1470, Reviect Stistrvtes Section 5508,/the pre- Gocessc: of 18 U.S.C. §261; anc’Eco i. 3520. These ave the