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Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s
Slate ^ | June 28, 2013

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: ballotlanguage; democratscandals; disenfranchisedvoter; howtostealanelection
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To: D Rider
Maybe so, but I think they should give it to all potential voters. If you cannot get at least 70%, your a dumb as a box of rocks and should not be voting.

These tests were historically used by Democrats to suppress voters. I'd rather we not follow their lead.

Plus, 51% of the country voted for Obama last year, which means that plenty of people who could pass such a test can get to the voting booth and still be dumb as a box of rocks.
161 posted on 06/29/2013 9:01:58 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Diamond
It seems to me that the author of the test a verb.

It me you too.

162 posted on 06/29/2013 9:03:23 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Nervous Tick

> You draw a curved line.

That’s more properly called an arc.


163 posted on 06/29/2013 9:03:31 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: JCBreckenridge

What are your skills? What field are you targeting?


164 posted on 06/29/2013 9:04:01 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: ThomasThomas
I see two how did you know witch one?

Magic.

165 posted on 06/29/2013 9:05:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I’m a teacher. I have a history degree. I have three years teaching experience in Texas, but do not have my teaching certification yet. I have worked for a private parochial school here.

I have done quite a few jobs in the past, currently own a business where I do remote office work for a few clients and I have a tutoring business where I take on all comers.

I have about 6 years experience doing data entry for several companies as well.


166 posted on 06/29/2013 9:07:18 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: kabumpo; LoneRangerMassachusetts; Diamond

I’m using a mobile. Didn’t even see those questions. The ones that showed up were easy. Those you threw out? Insane.

IOW I admit that I was wrong.


167 posted on 06/29/2013 9:08:28 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: JCBreckenridge

What do you *want* to do for a living?


168 posted on 06/29/2013 9:10:27 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Focault's Pendulum

BTW x=5. Pythagorean Theorem.


169 posted on 06/29/2013 9:10:58 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: FredZarguna

Good explanation. They are trying to promote the meme that blacks are going back to Jim Crow because of conservatives.

Never mind that it was liberals largely responsible for Jim Crow.


170 posted on 06/29/2013 9:12:03 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: JCBreckenridge
Help me land a better job so I can get married and have kiddos and buy a house in this **** economy.

Get married, then have kids?

OK, based on this answer, the solution to your problem is easy: Get back in your TARDIS and set the thing for a year with a better economy.

Geez.

Kids.

171 posted on 06/29/2013 9:12:48 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Nervous Tick

In an ideal world I’d write.

I like teaching and data entry though.


172 posted on 06/29/2013 9:14:41 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: Westbrook

>> That’s more properly called an arc.

Does that matter? “They” gave me a task, and the only way to accomplish it is to draw an arc shaped line.

As an aside, there are two kinds of people in this world.

One kind, given a task, will argue endlessly about the semantics of the task.

The other kind will do the task, as best they can, with the information and tools they have.


173 posted on 06/29/2013 9:15:15 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: rlmorel

Which is the correct answer to #27?


174 posted on 06/29/2013 9:15:31 PM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: FredZarguna

“Get married, then have kids?

OK, based on this answer, the solution to your problem is easy: Get back in your TARDIS and set the thing for a year with a better economy.”

Why don’t I simply kill Obama and Romney and we’d have President Santorum?


175 posted on 06/29/2013 9:15:42 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: Wellington VII

Harder for a conservative group to get tax-exempt status from the IRS these days - but of course there’s nothing worth getting the DOJ involved there.....


176 posted on 06/29/2013 9:16:18 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Diamond

right...:)


177 posted on 06/29/2013 9:18:03 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: piytar

BTW, the angle in the lower right doesn’t have a little square thingy, so Pythagorean theorem doesn’t apply. So the answer is SQRT(9+16-24 cos(angle missing little square thingy)).


178 posted on 06/29/2013 9:23:00 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: FredZarguna

Lol. It is clearly a right angle there. But technically you are correct.


179 posted on 06/29/2013 9:26:29 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: FredZarguna

Well except 24 should be 25. Lol


180 posted on 06/29/2013 9:27:56 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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