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  1. Take The Near Impossible #LiteracyTest #Louisiana Used to Suppress the #BlackVote (1964)

    in History, Politics | October 21st, 2024

    "In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the #ballots of #BlackVoters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers. While such dramatic means of #VoterSuppression occurred often enough in the Reconstruction South, tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the #JimCrowSouth relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.

    "These tests, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, were 'supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education' (typically up to the fifth grade). Yet they were 'in actuality disproportionately administered to black voters.'

    "Additionally, many of the tests were rigged so that registrars could give potential voters an easy or a difficult version, and could score them differently as well. For example, the Veterans of the #CivilRights Movement describes a test administered in #Alabama that is so entirely subjective that it measures the registrar’s shrewdness and cunning more than anything else.

    "The test here from #Louisiana consists of questions so ambiguous that no one, whatever their level of education, can divine a 'right' or 'wrong' answer to most of them. And yet, as the instructions state, 'one wrong answer denotes failure of the test,' an impossible standard for even a legitimate exam. Even worse, voters had only ten minutes to complete the three-page, 30-question document. The Louisiana test dates from 1964, the year before the passage of the #VotingRightsAct, which effectively put an end to these blatantly discriminatory practices."

    Read more:
    openculture.com/2024/10/take-t

    #Disenfranchisement #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #History #USHistory #Elections2024

  2. Today is election day in #Croatia. Probably one of the most important elections since independence because it is about whether the country will stay on the path of illiberalisation or not. The polls are not very encouraging and one thing to watch today is the voter turnout, which has been declining significantly over the years. The election outcome will also be indicative for the European election in June.

    #Elections2024 #RuleOfLaw #Illiberalism #Orbanisation #Democracy #EuropeanElections2024

  3. Le saviez-vous? Le scrutin des #Elections2024 #europeennes2024 se joue en un seul tour dimanche 9 juin 2024.

    A noter que pour obtenir un siège une liste doit dépasser les 5%, et en paraphrasant info.gouv.fr/les-priorites/eur on peut se rapeller qu'en 2019, cela a ainsi conduit à ignorer 4,5 millions de voix (17% des scrutins exprimés). Espérons que cette année, le #DébatPublic soit à la hauteur et qu'une certaine cohésion permette de limiter la fragmentation des votes...

  4. Banks Want Forged Paper Trails After Taking Money Illegally From Customers For Modi Govt's Flagship Schemes

    Despite media exposés and frequent public complaints, banks nationwide continue taking money without authorisation from accounts to enrol customers in low-cost life-insurance and accident-insurance schemes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    To meet targets set by the union government, bank offices are now withdrawing money from accounts of many customers en masse, in some cases even forging customer consent and asking local offices to camouflage forgeries.

    #IndianBanks #UnionGovt #banking #GovtSchemes #PMJJBY #APY #PMSBY #NarendraModi #elections2024 #india

    article-14.com/post/banks-want

  5. DMK allots one Rajya Sabha seat to actor Kamal Hassan's MNM

    The arrangement was finalised during a meeting between Kamal Haasan and MK Stalin, the President of DMK and the CM of Tamil Nadu, at the DMK headquarters in Chennai.

    #elections2024 #TamilNadu #KamalHaasan #DMK #MNM #RajyaSabha #MKStalin #india

    thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/d

  6. Soldiers on leave now govt’s marketing agents, by order of Army HQ!

    Last week, media reports said that the Indian Army had passed an order to all its soldiers going on leave – soldiers are authorised 60 days of annual leave – to spend time doing “social service” to enhance “nation-building efforts”. What are they supposed to do? The Army HQ’s list of suggestions: Talk to the local community about Modi government schemes. Sushant Singh writes.

    deccanherald.com/opinion/soldi

    #IndianArmy #IndianNavy #IndianAirForce #BJP #NarendraModi #propaganda #GovtSchemes #IAF #hindutva #nationalism #HinduNationalism #labour #elections2024 #india