In all. there are 730.000 Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Although 480.000 are of voting age. less than onethird of these. or only 150.000. are registered to vote. Under New York law. a person desiring to vote may either take the literacy test or prove his literacy by showing an eighth grade education in a school conducted in English. This requirement. whatever its origins. is an unreasonable qualification for the threequarter million Puerto Ricans who have come to our shores in recent years. It hampers. discourages. and frustrates the full and equal participation of these good citizens in the mainstream of American political life.
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