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« on: February 21, 2011, 05:16:50 PM »
Take the literacy test: http://kpearson.project.tcnj.edu/interactive/imm_files/test.html

I got 65/67
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2011, 05:19:20 PM »
They should bring it back.  I doubt most Alabamamamans, white or black, could get through a 67 question test much less get a passing voting grade.  It would swing the state to the political elite like DW Perry.
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2011, 05:24:03 PM »
« Edited: February 21, 2011, 05:26:51 PM by The Mikado »
What's a passing score?

EDIT: The Supreme Court is the chief lawmaking body in the United States.  Apparently, Jim Crow-era Alabamans loved activist judges.
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2011, 05:27:22 PM »


68 for blacks, 3 for whites.
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2011, 05:34:42 PM »
I stopped after Question 3...my answer is Yes.
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2011, 05:37:17 PM »
I missed 13, but i wouldn't have to worry. Most were due to being in a hurry
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2011, 05:40:51 PM »
66/67. The wording of one of the Supreme Court questions ('chief law making body') threw me off.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2011, 05:43:39 PM »
They made the test easier than it actually was - by making all questions multiple choice, and giving nonsense alternatives. In the real test you had to know the exact swearing-in dates and the exact number of states needed to ratify the Constitution. Honestly, what sharecropper would need to know that ever again?
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2011, 05:52:48 PM »
62/68 Undecided
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2011, 05:53:08 PM »
Quote from: Bertie's human surplus on February 21, 2011, 05:43:39 PM
They made the test easier than it actually was - by making all questions multiple choice, and giving nonsense alternatives. In the real test you had to know the exact swearing-in dates and the exact number of states needed to ratify the Constitution. Honestly, what sharecropper would need to know that ever again?

So 99.9% flunked without a crib sheet?  Was that why the turnout was so low in some of these deep South states?  And didn't about just 6 or 7 folks vote in Virginia (mostly with the surname of "Byrd") for a few decades? Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2011, 05:53:30 PM »
I have 56 correct answers out of 67

Am I literate under Alabama law?
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2011, 05:56:33 PM »
This is the actual test, as Lewis described:

http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.pdf
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2011, 06:00:30 PM »
Quote from: Ghost_white on February 21, 2011, 05:40:51 PM
66/67. The wording of one of the Supreme Court questions ('chief law making body') threw me off.
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2011, 04:48:55 PM »
Obviously. I'm white.
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2011, 04:52:26 PM »
A lot of Whites were grandfathered into a voting, so they didn't need to give a s**t about test.
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« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2011, 02:38:28 AM »
No
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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2011, 02:50:39 AM »
     I'm under 21, so no. Tongue
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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2011, 02:50:51 AM »
Quote from: GTO Ambassador Ben on February 21, 2011, 06:00:30 PM
Quote from: Ghost_white on February 21, 2011, 05:40:51 PM
66/67. The wording of one of the Supreme Court questions ('chief law making body') threw me off.
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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2011, 11:09:02 AM »
67/67, including the "wrong" answer on question 13.
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2011, 02:55:34 PM »
67 questions ? Shocked

What people do you expect will waste so much time in order to vote in an uncompetitive one-party State ? Tongue
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« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2011, 06:58:17 PM »
I am struggling to decide which of the following is most demotivating:

A. The test expects people to memorize dozens of rather obscure, trivial facts beforehand.
B. For the time being, my score of 49/67 is the worst to be posted by a substantial margin.
C. That same score would likely outshine the results received by a large majority of people.
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