If you are illiterate then you are less likely to be able to read up information on who your voting for, along with the assumption that you have less education then the average voter.
A test required for voting.
They made literacy tests an easy way to prevent freed slaves from voting.
poverty is the main factor that affect literacy rates
No voting method has been discontinued unless you refer to poll taxes and literacy tests.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
voting
They couldnt read properly
Literacy tests
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
Literacy Test cuz they couldnt read
Not court orders but Literacy Tests
The literacy test was intended to prevent African Americans from voting.