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  • 2015-12-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Ted Yoho Say African-Americans Should Get Only 3/5ths of a Vote? (en)
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  • On 26 December 2015, an image of U.S. Representative Theodore Scott (Ted) Yoho of Florida along with a quote ostensibly uttered by him about the value of African-American votes was posted to Facebook: Although this particular version was new in December 2015, the rumor it presented had been circulating since May 2014, when the fake news web site Newslo included it in an article titled Florida Representative Ted Yoho Says African-Americans Should Only Be Given 3⁄5 of a Vote: Newslo is a site that publishes items combining real news with satirical fabrications. In this instance, they melded a real statement from Ted Yoho in which he admitted to holding some radical ideas about voting with a made-up quote from the congressman proclaiming that African-American voters should only get 3/5ths of a vote. (We note that the votes of African-Americans never counted as only three-fifths of a white man's. A compromise measure of the original U.S. Constitution held that slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining a state's population with respect to legislative representation and taxation, but slaves were not allowed to vote at all.) (en)
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