Ray From Cleveland
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It doesn't, but the Voting Rights Act of 1965 made literacy tests illegal and the Supreme Court ruled it was constitutional to ban them and any other tests for voting.
For one, this isn't a literacy test. Two, many blacks back then were denied an education along with kids that had to quit school to work and support the family. My father was one of those kids.
A very simple political test is apples and oranges. Yes, it would be discriminatory, it would discriminate against people who didn't know WTF they are even voting on. Nor would the test cost you a dime like a poll tax. Such a system would insure us of better representation unlike today where people like this ultimately decide our representation.