Probably a publication of Luther Porter Jackson who was engaged in registration efforts in the late 1940s. It really got tough for a short period in the late 1950s when the General Assembly passed the "blank sheet" registration law. Not only did the person registering have to know the answer--they had to know the questions! Jim Hershman Bill Obrochta wrote: >To all- > >Several years ago, I came across a chart that showed monthly schedules >of voter registrars in several Southside Virginia counties in the >mid-20th century. (At least, that's what I think it was.) The chart >showed that the registrars (who were employed full time in some other >capacity) registered new voters only one or two days a month--sometimes >from the Courthouse and sometimes from home. Can anyone jog my memory >and give me a citation? > >Bill > >-- >William B. Obrochta >Assistant Director for Education >Virginia Historical Society >P. O. Box 7311 >Richmond, VA 23221-0311 >phone: 804-342-9651 fax: 804-355-2399 >www.vahistorical.org >[log in to unmask] > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html