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

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319 points rcarmo | 3 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.622s | source
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elzbardico[dead post] ◴[22 Oct 24 13:53 UTC] No.41914288[source]▶
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1. robocat ◴[22 Oct 24 14:21 UTC] No.41914604[source]▶
Your implicit premise is that we vote for policy. Democracy works despite the majority not understanding much about policy.

One critical strength of democracy is that it allows voters to remove the current politician - even if that politician would rather not be removed.

Where would you pick your line? Small moves of the line change the size of the disenfranchised group.

And I have to admire your chutzpah of suggesting tests to create a disenfranchised group on an article showing serious flaws with testing... Of course you haven't suggested a single way to fix any flaws. I sincerely hope you are not working in any engineering role.

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2. hammock ◴[22 Oct 24 14:32 UTC] No.41914697[source]▶
> Democracy works despite the majority not understanding much about policy.

Citation needed

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3. robocat ◴[22 Oct 24 15:31 UTC] No.41915288[source]▶
Citation:

  Your implicit premise is that we vote for policy. Democracy works despite the ma. . . | Hacker News. (n.d.). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914604