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Still, efforts at the Congressional level to abolish the poll tax continued. A 1939 bill to abolish the poll tax in federal elections was tied up by the Southern Bloc, lawmakers whose long tenure in office from a one-party region gave them seniority and command of numerous important committee chairmanships.
Georgia abolished its poll tax in 1945. [17] Florida repealed its poll tax in 1937. [18]: 346 The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of the poll tax (or any other tax) as a pre-condition for voting in federal elections, [19] but made no mention of poll taxes in state elections.
The poll tax mechanism varied on a state-by-state basis; in Alabama, the poll tax was cumulative, meaning that a man had to pay all poll taxes due from the age of twenty-one onward in order to vote. In other states, poll taxes had to be paid for several years before being eligible to vote. Enforcement of poll tax laws was patchy.
They convinced Congressman Lee Geyer (D-California) and Senator Claude Pepper (D-Florida) to introduce bills to the US Congress in 1941 to abolish the poll tax. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Though Pepper's bill resulted in a full-scale congressional debate on federal protection of voting rights, in 1942, it was only successful in waiving the poll tax payment on ...
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