Some of the most effective aspects of the Voting Rights Act include the authorization of federal observers to monitor elections and the appointment of federal examiners to register people to vote. Federal observers were dispatched to see “whether persons who are entitled to vote are being permitted to vote, and…whether votes cast by persons entitled to vote are being properly tabulated.” The act also authorized the appointment of federal examiners in certain circumstances to inspect voter registration forms and add qualified individuals to voter rolls in select states and counties. “Any person whom the examiner finds…to have the qualifications prescribed by State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States shall promptly be placed on a list of eligible voters.” Thousands of individuals were able to bypass obstructionist state and local elections officials when registering to vote. Of the 250,000 Black men and women who registered to vote by the end of 1965, federal examiners had registered about one-third of them.