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Vote. It’s Easy.

Written on November 21, 2014 by Curtis Smeltzer

Categories: Community, Entertainment Archive 2014

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pass this test in order to vote

Voting is the right of the people.

In October of 2014, a group of Harvard students took the 1964 Louisiana literacy test, a test supposedly meant to ensure that only those with a 5th grade education or higher were able to vote, to raise awareness of the ways in which voting is hindered.

Watch this video on the literacy test Louisiana citizens in 1964 had to pass in order to vote:

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What do you think?  Would you pass?

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