Only 3,630 Budapest Jews were allowed to vote in the elections this year despite the fact that 200,000 persons, one-fifth of the city’s population, are Jewish, it was learned today. In 1937 the number of Jewish voters was 70,000. The reduction in the suffrage is due to a clause in the anti-Jewish legislation requiring Jews to prove that their parents or grandparents had lived in Hungary “uninterruptedly” since 1867, when the Jews were first granted the right to vote.
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