Would you favor requiring literacy tests fairly administered before allowing citizens to vote?

Literacy tests were used in the past to disenfranchise voters, particularly Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. Although they might seem like a way to ensure informed voting, their historical use demonstrates how such tests can be easily manipulated to suppress the vote of specific populations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 explicitly outlawed literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices. Therefore, while the ideal of an informed electorate is important, literacy tests are widely viewed as an unacceptable barrier to voting due to their potential for abuse and their discriminatory legacy.
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