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Think ProgressLast week, former GOP House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich suggested that American citizens should have to pass a test in American history before they could earn the right to vote. Despite rampant criticism from both sides of the aisle,
Gingrich reiterated his support for poll tests yesterday at a town hall meeting in Marshalltown, IA....
Conservatives across the country are moving to disenfranchise voters as fast as they can through restrictive voter identification laws and other means, but the idea of a poll test stands out as particularly extreme. Indeed, Florida Rep. Allen West (R), who is black, dismissed Gingrich’s original comments as something “my parents had to deal with.”
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