The proponents have reduced the time from 10 years to 5 years. but they say. "You cannot escape from this." By the way. Alabama is now in the process of enacting a law which. as I understand. is on an exact parallel with that of New York State. Yet we are told that we cannot use a literacy test in Alabama to keep persons from voting. even if we used it nondiscriminately. Yet New York State can use its literacy test. and does so. to keep from voting. according to everything I have heard. several hundred thousand Puerto Ricans. some of whom have lived in New York all their lives50 years or more. Still. because they cannot read or write the English language. they are barred from voting under New Yorks literacy test.
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