Stephanie
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That's still illegal! Show us where any kind of testing, literacy, civics, financial standing, marital, etc. is required for franchise. The only test is citizenship and age.It takes a TOTAL moron to misinterpret Tom Tancredo's opening salvo...
Former Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, told about 600 convention goers in the Nashville ballroom that in the 2008 election President Barack Obama was elected because of "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English.'"
Expressing his disappointment that America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama." Tancredo went on to suggest that a literacy test be implemented to prevent electoral outcomes in the future.
Suggesting a literacy test is nothing short of calling for a return to Jim Crow laws. Under Jim Crow laws literacy tests were used to prevent blacks from voting during segregation. They were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1964.
Oh my gawd, Trancredo didn't say people should "take a literacy test" he said people should know Civics literacy before voting.. But don't let that stop you all from making shit up.
A political litmus test is something worthy of the Taliban, not a free American citizen.
ILLEGAL. worthy of the Taliban. good grief. can ya get anymore DRAMATIC.