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

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243 points rcarmo | 3 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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KingOfCoders ◴[22 Oct 24 05:58 UTC] No.41911577[source]▶
What a strange idea for someone from Germany. Here you are registered as a citizen and get a letter to your registered address and you take that to the voting station. Vote. Done.
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ndbsbwbw ◴[22 Oct 24 07:09 UTC] No.41911929[source]▶
Because, yes Germany has always been fair, democratic and non discriminating.
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cedilla ◴[22 Oct 24 09:27 UTC] No.41912621[source]▶
Also because residents of Germany have a duty to always maintain an accurate registration of their current address with the county. So the German state actually knows where its voters live, making voter registration superfluous.

In case that was sarcasm, then I have to disagree. The current German state has an excellent track record when it comes to voter enfranchisement. Its shortcomings with the democratic process lay elsewhere. The last really questionable action relating to elections was the questionable ban of the communist party - in 1956.

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1. rKarpinski ◴[22 Oct 24 12:43 UTC] No.41913660{3}[source]▶
> The current German state has an excellent track record

"Current state" is a convenient wording to exclude 1933-1990

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2. cedilla ◴[22 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41915632[source]▶
Why would I exclude 1949-1990?
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3. rKarpinski ◴[22 Oct 24 16:40 UTC] No.41916082[source]▶
The current German state was made in the 90's.

Personally don't think the German Democratic Republic had an excellent track with enfranchisement.