Despite 2 subsequent civil rights measures designed to secure the right to vote and the institution of numerous voting rights suits by the Department of Justice. as well as 140 or more private registration drives. the Commission concluded. in its report filed at the end of 1963. that Negro registration in those 100 counties has risen to only 8.3 percent. The techniques of voting discrimination are many and varied. One technique is that of the discriminatory and unequal application of legal qualifications such as literacy tests. constitutional interpretation tests. calculation of age to the exact day. and requirements of good moral character. Other techniques are more arbitrary. such as rejection of an applicant for insignificant errors he has made in filling out his forms. Of course. in areas where all white citizens are registered and no Negro citizen is registered. one novel technique is to apply rigid standards to all those who wish to register in the future.
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