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Ballot By Laws
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land in the State or five hundred
dollars ($50O) worth of property in
the State.
The Louisiana requirement is
three hundred dollars $4,000 worth
of property and payment of person.
al taxes.
South Carolina prescribes three
hundred $4,000 worth of property
on which taxes for the preceding
year have been paid.
Mississippi, North Carolina and
Virginia have no property test.
Educational Test = Alabama re-
quires that the applicant, unless
physically disabled. must be able to
read and write the Constitution of
the United States in English.
In Georgia he must, unless phys
ically disabled, be able to read and
write the Constitution of the United
States in English; or If physically
disabled from reading and writing,
to understand and give reason
able Interpretation" of the Consti-
tuition of the United States or of
Georgia. when read to him.
Louisiana requires that the appli-
cant must be able to read and write
and must make an application for
registration in his own handwriting
In Mississippi he must be able to
understand or reasonably interpret
any part of the Constitution of the
State.
In North Carolina the require
ment is the ability to read and
write the State Constitution in Eng
lish.
The Constitution of Oklahoma
says the applicant must be able
to read and write any section of the
Constitution of the State"
South Carolina requires ability to
read and write the Constitution.
Virginia requires that the appli-
cation in his own handwriting and
prepare and deposit his ballot with
out aid.
Grandfather Clause The Grand
father Clause permits a person who
was not able to satisfy either .edu'
cational or property tests to con
tinue to vote for life if he was q
voter in 1857 Tor in Oklahoma in
1860 or is an old soldier or the
lineal .descendent of such voter
or soldier, provided, except in Ok
lahoma. he registered prior to 6
fixed date.
The expiration of the date wher
such persons could register was il
South Carolina, January 1, 1898
Louisiana, September /, 1898; Ala
bama, December 20, 1902; Virginia
December 81, 1903; North Carolina
December l, 1905; Georgia, Janu
airy /, 1915. The Oklahoma Grand
father Clause intended to be perma
nent, provided that:
No person who was on January 1
1866, or at any time prior thereto
entitled to vote under any form o
Government, or who at that tim
resided in some foreign nation, AM
no lineal descendant of such person
shall be denied the right to registe
and vote because of his inability t
so read and write such Constitution
The Supreme Court of the Unite
States, June 81, 1915, declared tn
Grandfather Clause invalid. Missis
sippi had no Grandfather Clause.
Understand and Character Clause
Only two States, Georgia and Mis-
sissippi. have permanent under
standing and character clauses. A
though in Georgia a person ma
have neither property nor educatio
he may be permitted to register
he is of good character and undel
stands the duties and obligation {
citizenship under a republican forl
of government.
The Mississippi law permits or
who cannot read to register If /
can understand and reasonably il
terpret the Constitution when rea
to him.
In Alabama, South Carolina al
Virginia the Understanding clause
a part of the Grandfather sectiol
and became imperative with Il
Grandfather Clauses"