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The literacy requirement for voting was intended to

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If You wanted to vote you had to able to read and write.
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The literacy requirement for voting was intended to a person's literacy skills. It has been used by many governments to assess migrants literacy levels. In the USA the literacy tests were conducted between the 1850s and 1960s to disenfranchise African Americans from voting. Apart from the Literacy test, Poll taxes, residency and property restrictions were used to deny voting to Black Americans.

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