D. degree and letting the most ignorant voter. provided he is white. register. are well known. How would title I of the Housepassed bill correct some of these injustices? In determining whether an individual is qualified to vote in an election where Federal officers are to be elected. title I prohibits persons acting under State or local authority from applying any discriminatory standard. utilizing an immaterial error of omission on the registration form. or employing any literacy test unless it is in writingexcept where an individual requests and State law authorizes another type of testin order to deny the right to vote. In a voter discrimination suit. Instituted by the Attorney General. where literacy becomes a relevant fact. there Is created a rebuttable presumption that an individual who has not been judged an incompetent and who has completed the sixth grade of school possesses sufficient literacy to vote in an election in which Federal officials are to be elected.
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