A long list of disqualifying crimes was added, including wife-beating and conviction for vagrancy.

As if this were not enough, after 1903 an applicant for registration might be required to state where he had lived during the preceding five years, the name or names by which known, and the names of his employers.

Refusal to answer was made a bar to registration, and wilful misstatement was regarded as perjury.
Oklahoma adopted its disfranchising amendment in 1910, without valid reason so far as any one outside the State could see, as the proportion of negroes was very small.

An attempt was made permanently to disfranchise the illiterate negro by the "grandfather clause," while allowing illiterate white voters to vote forever.

Other States allowed a limited time in which to register on a permanent roll, after which all illiterates were to be disfranchised.