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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sdrawrof
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Draw a curve. It is implied by the word “around.”
Good thing the test isn’t in cursive. I would never pass.
Some of the questions were unfair. Check # 29. What if one was dyslexic? A valid ID seems like childs’ play.
And the cures for our social ills were much worse than the problems. Yes?
Fair enough. Not much different from today, too.
Spell backwards, forwards.
Sorry, i misquoted the test. Please answer.
>> 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.
And after the last twenty years or so, I’m BEYOND willing to believe that less than half of America ought to be voting. :-)
Anyway, did I miss the passing score part? What sort of score did you need to pass this thing? I’ll go back and look.
My guess quite a few intelligent people could easily get one answer wrong in the rush to make sure they finished in under ten minutes...20 seconds per answer...
I can only imagine a large percent any adult person in the 60's not passing this test..black or not...having white skin doesn't automatically make one "smart"
I don’t remember the passage in the Constitution where it states that a test score of 100% on any test being required as a qualification to vote. Perhaps you could point that passage out to me.
That was a good one.
My answer would be... Backwards.
But some might say the answer is: SdrawroF
Bingo! Stalin (paraphrase): it does not matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.
No. We wanted you to spell the word “backwards” in the regular, forwards direction.
Sorry, you failed. Come back next year.
I think that test was delilberately confusing and unfair. I would have gotten every answer right, but I know a lot of people (who are perfectly good voters) who would not. I do not know the point of some of those questions regarding voting — other than to confuse the reader. One question missed fails, and the testee gets only 10 minutes to complete.
Bingo! Stalin (paraphrase): it does not matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.
A box is typically a square. A line around a letter could certainly be a circle.
Oh, ain't ya so clever!
I would bet money that either that test was not really the test or that it was not typical.
"Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence."
What? Huh? Is "a" a reference to a singularity, therefore is it to be meant in its "numeric" sense?
It is only after going back over it did I realize this was question #1, therefore the item to "draw a line around" was the index number preceding the sentence.
To take away your right to vote over this? B.S. I want qualified voters, but this tells me nothing about the ability to be a competent citizen.
Ok. So. Write forwards, backwards. . well, it seems they mean sdrawrof, but the lack of quotation marks to accentuate which word they want acted upon makes it look like having been written by an illiterate person.
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