Fox News Asks If It's "Time To Revisit" Voter Literacy Test Requirements

[kpete]

Ann Coulter: "I Just Think It Should Be... A Little More Difficult To Vote. There Is Nothing Unconstitutional About Literacy Tests."


wacky video:
http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/04/15/fox-news-asks-if-its-time-to-revisit-voter-lite/203289

[ProfessorGAC]

1. They Better Hope Not

Annie and Faux folks better watch what they wish for.

[krawhitham]

26. Bingo

[Retrograde]

32. I doubt most of their viewers could pass the citizenship test

Of course, their idea of a literacy test would be something like

"What is Obama?
a) the Great Satan
b) a communist Muslin* Kenyan imposter
c) the duly elected president of the United States

*deliberate spelling: the morans don't know any different "

Anyone answering c is duly denied the vote.

[onehandle]

2. How about surrounding polling places in African-American districts with armed NRA volunteers?

That would make it a little more difficult to vote and uphold the modern reasoning for the Second Amendment.

Are you with me, Coulter?

[marym625]

3. OH.MY.FUCKING.DOG!

Damn these pieces of shit! Just Damn them all!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

27. I wonder if a republican in the WH would make it even harder for us to vote

no I dont wonder

[marym625]

28. I can't believe that people like Coulter even exist.

[liberal N proud]

4. They might be shocked how many teabaggers and right wingnuts wouldn't pass

More FOX propaganda pushing for an elitist society.

[0rganism]

33. except that's not how it works

we've had "literacy tests" for voting and voter registration in the past.
somehow, even the most ignorant white males still get to vote.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Do they know that they're audience ...

will mostly flunk.

[sufrommich]

6. There is nothing Ann Coulter won't say for publicity.

It's her schtick and it's getting less and less effective for her,thankfully.

[arcane1]

29. Ted Nugent is getting all the spotlight these days. Ann is desperate for relevance.

When they stoop to these levels, I can only laugh, because it shows just how badly they are LOSING!

[Nine]

7. like this one?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html

[samsingh]

11. i bet most repugs would fail this test.

it would be interesting to give this to everyone if the right wing asses agree to abide by the results.

[Pathwalker]

12. So blind people won't be allowed to vote?

This matters to me, as I am going blind.

[underpants]

25. Good question. Blind can ask for assistance

I would hope in all states. I doubt that ballots (there are so many) are accessible.

[jwirr]

17. Not one single question in this old test had anything to do with voting. Most of it is meant to

confuse.

[underpants]

22. Bubbles and Harvard students

I can't post links on this phone for some reason.

Article at addictinginfo
Harvard Students Take 1964 Literacy Test Black Voters Had To Pass Before Voting — They All Failed
November 12, 2014 • By Valerie Beaumont

From Wikipedia - Literacy tests
At first, whites were exempted from the literacy test if they could meet alternate requirements (the grandfather clause) that, in practice, excluded blacks. The Grandfather Clause allowed an illiterate person to vote if he could show descent from someone who was eligible to vote before 1867 (when only whites could vote). Grandfather clauses were ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Guinn v. United States (1915). Nevertheless, literacy tests continued to be used to disenfranchise blacks. The tests were usually administered orally by white local officials, who had complete discretion over who passed and who failed.[7] Examples of questions asked of Blacks in Alabama included: naming all sixty-seven county judges in the state, naming the date on which Oklahoma was admitted to the Union, and declaring how many bubbles are in a bar of soap.[8]

[samsingh]

8. ha ha - fox viewers would not be allowed to vote

bring it on you rightwing fing asswipes who depend on corporate welfare for your own survival.

bring it on. the left is smarter and more educated than you paranoid subhuman freaks.

[spanone]

9. ...and wouldn't that eliminate about 80% of the republicans? go for it.

[underpants]

23. Nah, they'd just be asked to spell "dog" or "BENGHAZI"

[trotsky]

10. "There Is Nothing Unconstitutional About Literacy Tests"

LOL Ann. The folks who DECIDE what's unconstitutional have said that they are.

Although with the current batch, who knows.

[underpants]

20. Jim Crow. She has to know this.

Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment would have penalized states which excluded adult males from voting (whether by literacy tests or by any other means) by proportionately reducing their representation in Congress, but this provision was never enforced. In 1959, the U.S. Supreme Court held that literacy tests were not necessarily violations of Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment nor of the Fifteenth Amendment. Lassiter v. Northampton Election Board (1959). Southern states abandoned the literacy test only when forced to do so by federal legislation in the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided that literacy tests used as a qualification for voting in federal elections be administered wholly in writing and only to persons who had completed six years of formal education. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suspended the use of literacy tests in all states or political subdivisions in which less than 50 percent of voting-age residents were registered as of November 1, 1964, or had voted in the 1964 presidential election. In a series of cases, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the legislation[9] and restricted the use of literacy tests for non-English-speaking citizens, Katzenbach v. Morgan. Since the passage of this legislation, black registration in the South has increased substantially.

[Tom Ripley]

34. She displays stunning ignorance for a law school graduate.

[Renew Deal]

13. This might not go as well for republicans as they think

[kpete]

21. you think?

Be careful what you wish for FOX


peace to you Renew Deal,
kp

[jwirr]

14. And Annie we think the requirements for your job are way to low. You need to educate yourself

much more before you have the right qualifications.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. I am OK with this, if

they apply a literacy and history test to any GOP candidate who tries to run for office.

[ann---]

16. Oops

Lots of their tea partying idiots may not pass.

[Cosmic Kitten]

18. Great to see Democrats Defending Voting Rights

The outrage about voter
disenfranchisement from
our Party is overwhelming!

I'm very encourage how the
Party leadership is acting
as the "Champion" for
Voting Rights!

It's reassuring to know
that the Dem leadership
has our backs in this fight

[Gothmog]

19. Do the GOP really want the tea party to take any tests?

[mythology]

24. I'd be fine with a scientific literacy test for elected officials

If you are a climate change denialist or believe the earth is 6000 years old, you can't serve on a science committee or vote on related matters.

But never for voting by the public.

[UTUSN]

30. R#4 & K for, uh TWO flaws in that thinking:

1) It was done before and we got rid of it.

2) Many wingnuts and other TeaBaggers would not be able to pass English language literacy tests.

[Initech]

31. A good majority of their fan base would fail.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.15322!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/gallery_1200/gal-teabonics-14-jpg.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.15116!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/gallery_1200/gal-teabonics-9-jpg.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.15184!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/gallery_1200/gal-teabonics-30-jpg.jpg

[MineralMan]

35. Next, I suppose, they'll want to bring back the Poll Tax.

Ann Coulter is a very silly, nasty person. Yes, indeed, she is.