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History of the poll tax by state from 1868 to 1966. Southern states had adopted the poll tax as a requirement for voting as part of a series of laws in the late 19th century intended to exclude black Americans from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment. This required that voting not be limited by "race, color ...
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 Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [65] Utah changes wording of their law and restores voting rights to all people who have completed their prison sentence for a felony. [63]
Formal and informal racial segregation policies were present in other areas of the United States as well, even as several states outside the South had banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting. [3] [4] Southern laws were enacted by white-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made ...
It is already a crime for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, and state law requires residents to be citizens to register to vote. Advocates say the amendment would clear up ambiguity in the ...
Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution and its statutes that set requirements for voter registration, including poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and the requirement that only registered voters could serve on juries.
A sweeping election law Georgia passed in 2021 put stricter identification requirements on mail-in ballots. Instead of including their signatures, voters need to provide a driver's license number ...
In addition to the citizen voting proposal, senators passed two more amendments that would largely codify existing law. One would specify that voter ID is required for all forms of voting, not ...