I do not wish to take too much time of the Senate. but in order to make sure I get across the point I want in the RECORD let me recapitulate. I have already mentioned how in my own State we began to erode the importance of the ballot by absentee voting and by liberalizing the laws of absentee voting. Then. here in Washington we started in by abolishing the literacy test. At about the same time. as I remember. we made another change. Previously we had permitted people who live in this country who cannot read or write in the English language to vote if they could read and write in their own language.
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