• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    If voting needed an exam, they would use that exam to stop certain demographics from voting. And no, I’m not talking about the ignorant.

    • apftwb@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Surely there are no examples in American history that voting eligibility exams were used to stop certain demographics from voting.

    • bestagon@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      They used to do this and it turned out exactly how you describe. I would probably also add it’d incentivize politicians to dismantle educational institutions serving certain demographics