united-states voting census
Census support for voting rights (1870)
<p>The fifteenth amendment was not ratified when the 1870 census forms were designed.  The last two questions in 1870 were</p>
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<p>Was this intended to support <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Background" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment</a> (which punished, by reduced representation in the House of Representatives, any state that disenfranchised any male citizens over 21 years of age)?</p>

<p>Yes. See the discussion in the instructions to enumerators:</p>
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