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How do officials help to ensure fairness in voting in areas with high concentrations of language minorities?
 
  a. Employing translators at the polls
  b. Going door to door to collect votes
  c. Offering ballots printed in English as well as the minority language
  d. Offering ballots printed only in the minority language
  e. Lowering literacy requirements

Question 2

Poll taxes and literacy tests were a way to
 
  a. defray the rising cost of elections.
  b. get around the Fifteenth Amendment.
  c. ensure voters would be able to understand the ballot.
  d. reduce election fraud.
  e. increase political participation.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B



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