For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has been paid to one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America: the effort to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read — a group that amounts to about 48 million Americans, or more than a fifth of the adult population. ProPublica analyzed the voter turnout in 3,000 counties and found that those with lower estimated literacy rates, on average, had lower turnout.

by Aliyya Swaby and Annie Waldman, September 12, 2022 – PROPUBLICA

“For many minority voters, the kind of assistance that they receive at the polls determines whether they will vote,” the report stated. “If minority voters who do not speak English or who are illiterate receive inadequate assistance, they may become too frustrated and discouraged to vote or they may mark their ballots in such a way that they will not be counted.”

by Aliyya Swaby and Annie Waldman, September 12, 2022 – PROPUBLICAhttps://www.propublica.org/article/literacy-tests-voting-rights-georgia-election