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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.
Following the decision in California Cannabis Coalition, to the extent a local tax increase initiative evades the constitutional two-thirds voter approval requirement for special taxes under Proposition 13 and/or Proposition 218, as a legislative remedy that tax may be reduced or repealed by the local electorate using the local initiative power ...
Critics, including former House Representative Beto O'Rourke, have decried the efforts as "voter suppression". [235] [236] The Texas Democratic Party called the bills an "assault on voting rights". [237] On July 12, 2021, at least 59 Democratic lawmakers left the state to prevent Republicans from having quorum to act on their legislation. [238]
The League of Women Voters opposes all forms of voter suppression by advocating for legislation that opens the way to voting and by fighting restrictive voting measures at the federal and state ...
Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow, following the end of Reconstruction. Payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states until 1965. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws.
Democracy Defenders PAC and Fair Fight, two Democratic PACs, plan to make a joint six-figure investment in battleground states to prepare for and fight voter suppression issues in November. In a ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election. A new law ...
t. e. Proposition 16 is a California ballot proposition that appeared on the November 3, 2020, general election ballot, asking California voters to amend the Constitution of California to repeal Proposition 209 (1996). [ 2 ][ 3 ] Proposition 209 amended the state constitution to prohibit government institutions from considering race, sex, or ...