It is the same measure which has been in the Judiciary Committee for some time and on which hearings have been held in the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights under the chairmanship of the distinguished Senator from North Carolina . In brief. the amendment seeks to establish by Federal law an objective standard for determining literacy in the several States where literacy is a requirement for voting in Federal elections. It seeks. also. to insure. in effect. the acceptance of literacy in Spanish as valid in States which may require literacy tests for voting in Federal elections. There is nothing surreptitious about the proposed amendment. It is clearly designed to insure that those who are otherwise qualified to vote shall not be denied the vote in Federal elections on the basis of an arbitrary. capricious. or subjective measurement of their literacy by any State or State electoral official.
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