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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

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250 points rcarmo | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
1. alentred ◴[22 Oct 24 08:10 UTC] No.41912240[source]▶
Even if you pretend that questions are just accidentally ambiguous, the difference is that subjects are supposed to answer 30 questions in 10 minutes with zero mistakes. This is deliberate and virtually impossible to accomplish.
2. ◴[22 Oct 24 13:06 UTC] No.41913842[source]▶