[2harddrive]

WHAT is wrong with literacy tests? Hurts the DemocRATS voter turnout too much? After all, don’t you have to pass special tests, to carry a concealed weapon? What about the 2nd Amendment?

[xtinct]

literacy tests ?

Great idea... that would shut out most of the liberally educated high school and college students under 35...

[Cheburashka]

WHAT is wrong with literacy tests?

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Back in the day in the South one of the issues was who was grading the test - some locally elected official or an appointee of such. Who knew how the (white) voters who elected him and/or his boss wanted him to grade the tests.

If you were black and had a college degree, somehow you STILL couldn’t pass the literacy test.

If you were Lil’ Abner, no problem.

Of course in those days no one, black or white, could get through college without knowing how to read. That’s not a statement you can be sure of these days.