'Discriminatory': Black Americans wary of Vivek Ramaswamy's voting test plan

'Discriminatory': Black Americans wary of Vivek Ramaswamy's voting test plan

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JoAnne Bland, who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1965, reflects on the importance of voting rights. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy proposes a civics test for voters aged 18 to 24, similar to the test immigrants take to become U.S. citizens. Some Black Americans draw parallels between Ramaswamy's proposal and historical literacy tests used to deny voting rights. Black voters express concerns that Ramaswamy's proposal could be a modern version of discriminatory practices.

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