Reply To: Literacy Test with Voter Registration

Sam: That’s a hardship. You were able to vote absentee even before the movement over the past decade and half moving towards mail voting.

gavra: The point is Congress can change the law and make it legal – or even mandatory. zdad: The high court never overruled it. It was Congress that did, as gavra noted.

akuperman: The literacy and history test needs only to be a very basic and minimal threshold to pass. Anyone failing such a basic level shouldn’t be deciding who carries the nuclear suitcase.