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    Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, discusses House Bill 44. It would ask voters to repeal the literacy test in the N.C. Constitution. Jackson offered these comments for a March 1, 2023, report on WRAL.

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