Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, speaks in favor of House Bill 44. It would ask voters to repeal a literacy test in the N.C. Constitution. Jackson offered these comments during the March 1, 2023, meeting of the House Judiciary 2 Committee.
Locke’s Andy Jackson speaks in favor of eliminating NC’s literacy test for voting
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