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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
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Subject: Re: re: voting - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 22:28:50 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Feb 20 17:55:00 1984

   /***** uiucdcs:net.politics / orca!curts /  4:42 am  Feb 18, 1984 */
>
>  PS. Voting credentials have already been used, and discarded as a
>  bad idea.

The forms of "voting credentials" previously used, such as the
"grandfather clause", poll taxes, and oral constitution tests
administered by county officials all had the *intent* (and not just 
the effect) of keeping minority members from voting.

The question now is whether all forms of voter qualifications are a bad idea.
The experiences of the past are no help for this question.

Scott Renner
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner