The grandfather clause was a law that said anyone whose grandfather could vote could vote then, so even if a white was poor and couldn't pay poll taxes, and dumb and couldn't pass a literacy test,...
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It can't be abolished. They tried to abolish it once, but it's been grandfathered in under the grandfather clause.
It said if your grandfather could vote, so could you.
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