Posted on 06/29/2013 6:30:34 PM PDT by Wellington VII
This week’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder overturned Section 4(b) of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which mandated federal oversight of changes in voting procedure in jurisdictions that have a history of using a “test or device” to impede enfranchisement. Here is one example of such a test, used in Louisiana in 1964.
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Tests should always be given. It’s outrageous how we allow so many ignorant and stupid people to vote, especially when they’re on welfare instead of paying taxes.
I’m worried for you if you couldn’t get a passing score on that test in 5 minutes, let alone 10.
>> Not much different from what a gun purchaser has to go through to exercise his second amendment rights
PROFOUND STATEMENT.
So, what’re your thoughts on this?
>> How do you draw a line around a letter?
You draw a curved line.
one hundred years ago a literacy question for blacks was...”How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?”
then they shouldn’t have to register for the draft, either.
Easy answers to screwy questions.
>> I suspect it had just as much to do with who was grading the tests.
Yeah, that’s the real issue. There are enough places where a grader with a mind to mess with the test-taker could do so, easily.
Ah, the ‘non sequitur uber alles’ technique...
Liberal propgandists love it.
The result of fools being allowed to vote is clearly evident: Obama.
Tom Tancredo was right when he spoke at the 2010 Tea Party Convention in Nashville about the need for a literacy test. Personally, I'm more hard line than Tancredo, favoring voting only for military members and property owners. A careful reading of the intent of the Founding Fathers reveals that the voting free-for-all that we have now is just plain wrong.
If the original poster chimes in, I’ll agree with you.
It’s the south so...it’s powerful bad.
The test says that anyone with a 5th grade education is excused from taking the test. I can see how this test would be impossible for someone who lacked the equivalent reading comprehension. Maybe that’s why we don’t let 5th graders vote.
“I wonder what we gain by having illiterate people vote.”
Communism.
Ok. So. Write forwards, backwards.
What is your answer?
I once worked as a claims rep for the Social Security Adm.
I was trying to establish the age of an old Black guy who was filing. He said he had attended grammar school in Mississippi.
This would have been around the 1910-15 era. I checked and saw that school records for Mississippi Black schools were available so ordered several. I was frankly amazed at the quality of the records. They were excellent.
I would bet a lot of money (if only there was a way to prove it) that less than half of America could take the test and get none of it wrong.
I only looked at the first 10 or so questions. They struck me as not very hard but really strange.
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