The "white primary" was a device that allowed whites who had failed the literacy test to vote; it allowed all to vote whose grandfathers had voted in the past.

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The statement is incorrect. The "white primary" was actually a system used in some Southern states in which only white voters were allowed to participate in primary elections, effectively excluding African Americans from the political process.

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