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  (Former U.S. Rep.) Tancredo blasted for poll test idea
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Last EditedAshley  Feb 09, 2010 01:15am
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AuthorLynn Bartels
MediaNewspaper - Denver Post
News DateSaturday, February 6, 2010 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFormer congressman Tom Tancredo took heat Friday for remarks at the national Tea Party convention that critics viewed as calling for a return to Jim Crow laws.

But Tancredo said he wasn't targeting a specific group when he suggested in Nashville there should be a "civics-literacy" test before someone could vote.

"People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House," Tancredo said in his opening-day speech Thursday.
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