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Literacy test to vote

Dominus

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I voted on Nov 7. Am reminded of literacy tests we learned about in school. So glad I didn't have to take one to vote.

Anyone here old enough to remember the literacy tests back in the 1960s?


Take the test. See how far you get in 10 minutes. I tried taking it and I failed miserably. Couldn't even finish it in 10 minutes.
 
This test is written in the style of a typical legit intelligence test. The questions would not be hard but for the way that they are purposely worded so that there may be two or more right answers. This means you have waste time trying to guess which is the answer that the examiner really wants and so the ten mins runs out. Either feasible answer is the right one if the candidate is white, and for the black candidate every answer is the wrong one. How did they get away with such obvious voter suppression? I guess the same way that certain states have gotten away with all the other means of voter suppression which continue to this day.
Universal sufferage means than nobody is denied the vote. Suppressing one voter, with reasons like criminal record or lack of mental capacity, makes it easier to suppress another and another until a whole section of society is suppressed, which is precisely what certain parties depend upon.
 
Often, this sort of testing isn't really looking for right or wrong answers. In this particular case, they were probably more interested in time of completion.
 
I don't remember such literacy tests, but I don't think we ever had them here. In the UK, every thug and moron has just as much right to vote as I do unless they happen to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure.
 
Kahaih said:
Often, this sort of testing isn't really looking for right or wrong answers. In this particular case, they were probably more interested in time of completion.
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Yes, time matters too. Black candidates have the paper snatched away on the stroke of ten minutes while the invigilators allow the white candidates generous overtime.
 
Dominus said:
I voted on Nov 7. Am reminded of literacy tests we learned about in school. So glad I didn't have to take one to vote.

Anyone here old enough to remember the literacy tests back in the 1960s?


Take the test. See how far you get in 10 minutes. I tried taking it and I failed miserably. Couldn't even finish it in 10 minutes.
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If I've inferred correctly, English is not your first language. That would make a difference.
 
I have never had to take a test to vote. To get a driver's license, sure. But voting is just a show up with your registration card and your ID process..... and the last time I voted they just wanted my ID.

It annoys that they try to act pissy because my d/l has my full name. Voter registration just has my middle initial. When I registered I didn't use my first name. That's my Dad's name, I go by my middle name. But they somehow made a match and they changed my middle name to an initial.
 
I believe that literacy tests for voters are illegal. It is essentially a poll tax.
 
unloadonme said:
I don't remember such literacy tests, but I don't think we ever had them here. In the UK, every thug and moron has just as much right to vote as I do unless they happen to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure.
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Didn't I read somewhere that some liberal do-gooder is campaigning for serving prisoners to have the right to vote?
 
rareboy said:
I believe that literacy tests for voters are illegal. It is essentially a poll tax.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy tests. Amendment XXIV to the U. S. Constitution outlawed poll taxes.

www.archives.gov

Voting Rights Act (1965)

EnlargeDownload Link Citation: An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other purposes, August 6, 1965; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives View All...
www.archives.gov www.archives.gov
 
LeicsDom said:
Didn't I read somewhere that some liberal do-gooder is campaigning for serving prisoners to have the right to vote?
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Yes and what is wrong with that?
The point is not whether evil violent bastards deserve the right, you can easily argue that they don't.
It is that once you allow exceptions to a universal right for certain persons you don't like, it makes it easier to also make exceptions for other persons, such as gypsies, Muslims, Jews, those with the wrong colour skin, those who don't vote Conservative.
 
Dargelos said:
Yes and what is wrong with that?
The point is not whether evil violent bastards deserve the right, you can easily argue that they don't.
It is that once you allow exceptions to a universal right for certain persons you don't like, it makes it easier to also make exceptions for other persons, such as gypsies, Muslims, Jews, those with the wrong colour skin, those who don't vote Conservative.
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Complete nonsense! The Wikipedia page I included in my previous post says that the prohibition against prisoners voting dates from 1870. The last religious group to be prevented from voting was Roman Catholics and that ban ended in the eighteenth century. Since 1870, and regardless whether the prisoner prohibition makes such a thing easier in your view or not, there has never in fact been any suggestion that any of the groups you mention should be disenfranchised. In fact, since 1870 the franchise has only ever been extended; in 1918 to all men and some women, in 1928 to all women and in 1969 to 18 to 21 year olds.
 
Dominus said:
I voted on Nov 7. Am reminded of literacy tests we learned about in school. So glad I didn't have to take one to vote.

Anyone here old enough to remember the literacy tests back in the 1960s?
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I don't remember a literacy test like the one you linked to. However, it's been a long time since I was in grade / high school.
 
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