| | | | Persons Excluded from Suffrage.
State or Territory. | "Grandfather | "Character Clause." | "Understanding + -+ + -+ +
| Clause." | | Clause." | Paupers. | Insane. | Criminals. | Indians. | Chinese.
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
South Carolina[61] |One might permanently | |One without |Paupers |Idiots and |Unpardoned | |
|register before | |ability to read |persons in |insane. |convicts. | |
|Jan. 1, 1898, if he | |might register |public | | | |
|could read the | |before Jan. |institutions.| | | |
|Constitution or | |1, 1898, if he | | | | |
|understand and | |could understand | | | | |
|explain it. | |and explain | | | | |
| | |the Constitution.| | | | |
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
South Dakota[102] | | | | |Idiots, |Unpardoned | |
| | | | |non compos |convicts. | |
| | | | |mentis, under| | |
| | | | |guardianship. | | |
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
Tennessee[103] | | | | | |Unpardoned | |
| | | | | |convicts. | |
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
Texas[104] | | | |Paupers. |Idiots and |Unpardoned | |
| | | | |lunatics. |or | |
| | | | | |unrestored | |
| | | | | |convicts. | |
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
Utah[105] | | | | |Idiots and |Unpardoned | |
| | | | |insane. |convicts. | |
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
Vermont[106] | |Voter must be of | | | |Unpardoned | |
| |"quiet and peaceable | | | |convicts. | |
| |behavior." | | | | | |
+ + + -+ -+ + -+ +
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