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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.
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Portions of Vermont system for publicly funding elections were found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2006 decision Randall v. Sorrell.In particular, state supplemental funds for publicly financed candidates whose opponents outspend them were struck down, while full funding of governor and lieutenant governor candidates remained in place.
The party primary elections took place on May 24, with runoffs scheduled for June 21. Raffensperger was elected in 2018 to a first term in a runoff against Democratic former U.S. representative John Barrow , the first time in Georgia history that any statewide executive election went to a second round.
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The bill sets a common deadline for correcting vote-by-mail ballots with missing or nonmatching signatures.
The secretary of state of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records. The office has had a four-year term since 1946. [1] Before 1880, the secretary of state was elected by the Georgia Assembly, not in a popular election. [1]
Later elections for certain types of contingent compensation ("performance-based" pay earned over 12 months or more, rights subject to forfeiture, etc.) Sign-on, retention, spot bonus, project bonus, severance at the time the compensation is awarded or negotiated.