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A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has launched a new web portal to allow voters to cancel their registration online. The site - cancelmyregistration.sos.ga.gov - lets voters who are moving ...
The site − cancelmyregistration.sos.ga.gov − lets voters who are moving or opting out of voter registration to notify their county registrar that they want their registration canceled.
To check your registration, update your registration, or see where you should go to vote, visit https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/. How to vote Voting in person on election day
Virginia State Board of Elections that poll taxes for any level of elections were unconstitutional. It stated that these violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Subsequent litigation related to potential discriminatory effects of voter registration requirements has generally been based on application of this clause.
A publicly funded election is an election funded with money collected through income tax donations or taxes as opposed to private or corporate funded campaigns. It is a policy initially instituted after Nixon for candidates to opt into publicly funded presidential campaigns via optional donations from tax returns.
Those who are already registered, or who want to check their registration status, can do so by logging onto Georgia’s My Voter Page at mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/. The My Voter Page can also be used to ...
Changes in Colorado law caused an increase in voters who chose to vote by mail in the November 3, 2009 election. This prompted Colorado to create a simple version of a ballot tracking service which allowed voters to look up their ballot and see if their local county election official had received it.