sentences:  In "Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections", the court held that, provided the tests were applied equally to all races and were not "merely a device to make racial discrimination easy," they were allowable.Congress subsequently prohibited use of such tests under the National Voting Rights Act of 1965.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (2.5%) is water.