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Political speaking could you pass the 1964 Literacy test in Louisiana for the right to vote? - livelyappliance388 - 04-28-2014 06:49 PM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_share_blogpost
- Zorak - 04-28-2014 06:56 PM
I could. I am white. I read it. Looks more like a sobriety test.
- Matt - 04-28-2014 07:02 PM
The Alabama test was even harder. It had 67 questions and if you got ANY of them wrong, you were illiterate. Of course, the registrar could waive the test or let you slide on a wrong answer...it was basically a massive vehicle for fraud.
- JeepDiva - 04-28-2014 07:07 PM
It would be nice if the link was in simple, easy for anyone to understand language.
That was the Southern mentality back then. Sorry Confederates, it's true.
Another thing they used to do was to ask them if they could read and write. They would give them a book written in Latin and ask them to read it.
Then, for the writing test, they would give them a cheap pen and a piece of paper coated with butter.
You can see how these "tests" would come out.
Some of these same politicians who supported these tactics later had the gall to ask for black people's votes.
- Smoking Joe - 04-28-2014 07:17 PM
These tests like all tests for voting ID will be only applied selectively, to people of color or people they suspect of being "democrats."
That's kind of the problem, and the reason the South can NEVER be trusted with voter restriction laws.
- SCE2AUX2 - 04-28-2014 07:24 PM
Obviously.
- Eric - 04-28-2014 07:31 PM
Completely ambiguous and lacking information on every question; I don't think anybody was ever supposed to pass such a test!