Conditional Suffrage?

[Warik]

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In practice, I think such a system could be easily manipulated, as the "literacy tests" in the southen states were to exclude black people from voting.

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That's because "literacy tests" in the South were designed to exclude and there was nobody around to prevent that from happening.

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Wait, your proposed "competence test" is NOT designed to exclude people from voting???

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My competence test is not designed to unfairly exclude people on the basis of race, like the southern "literacy tests" were.

Please refrain from taking what I say out of context.