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...counties now under federal registration supervision, he asked for injunctions permitting local officials to reject any voters-federally registered or not-who did not comply with state registration laws. Those laws, which were overwhelmingly approved in a statewide referendum this summer (TIME, Aug. 27), provide that no Mississippian is eligib'e to vote unless he can read and sign his name. This is in direct contradiction to the federal law, which abolishes literacy tests and allows an "X" for a signature...