| 单词 | poll tax |
| 例句 | One barrier facing potential voters was the poll tax, a special tax required of all voters that many blacks and poor whites could not afford to pay. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The act, in effect, abolished poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to equal opportunity at the ballot box. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws, even though the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As previously noted, poll taxes, literacy tests, and felon disenfranchisement laws were all formally race-neutral practices that were employed in order to avoid the prohibition on race discrimination in voting contained in the Fifteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His father was barred from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Poll workers had the discretion to charge a poll tax or administer a literacy test, or not, and they exercised their discretion in a racially discriminatory manner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because African Americans were poor, they frequently could not pay poll taxes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The pass stated where the bearer lived, who his chief was, and whether he had paid the annual poll tax, which was a tax levied only on Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These bureaucratic minefields are the modern-day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests—“colorblind” rules designed to make voting a practical impossibility for a group defined largely by race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z African- Americans could now register to vote without undergoing ridiculous qualification games, taking difficult exams, experiencing Klan intimidation, and paying “blacks only” poll taxes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The police routinely arrested masses of people for pass violations, possession of liquor, and failure to pay the poll tax. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have a copy of the poll tax book listing all the registered voters in Little Rock,” said Mrs. Brewer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax and spent a night in jail because he believed the tax funded the state-sponsored violence of slavery and the mistreatment of Mexicans and Native Americans. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The Falklands is not mentioned, ditto the poll tax riots, Thatcher's resignation and the first Gulf war. Box Set Club: Our Friends in the North 2011-07-19T13:29:17Z Voters were still required to pay poll taxes, and anyone who entered an interracial marriage could be sentenced to two years in prison. At the Texas Prison Rodeo, a color line dissolved 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Most African-American women in the South, like African-American men, were blocked by poll taxes, literacy tests and other racial barriers, while Native Americans and Asian immigrants were largely excluded from citizenship entirely. The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “I think that long lines are the new poll tax,” Maher said, referring to reports of several hours-long lines at polling stations in Wisconsin and Arizona during the past weeks’ primaries. “What they do is f*cking cheat”: Bill Maher rips Republicans for insidious voting laws targeting minorities 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Other laws, such as literacy tests, poll taxes, segregation and anti-miscegenation statutes followed, and not just in southern states, by the way. A leap for women’s rights: The Texas abortion case and the end of reproductive Jim Crow laws 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But Florida subsequently passed a law mandating that ex-felons pay any outstanding fines and fees before voting, a requirement that critics say is effectively a poll tax. ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ Review: Electoral Collage 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The poll tax riots, unlike the race riots of 1981, did not cement the Thatcher government's hold on power, but were a symptom of its convulsive death agonies. Film review: One Night in Turin 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z To reduce the black electorate and undermine African Americans’ political power, the constitution implements requirements like the “understanding clause” and the payment of poll taxes in order to vote. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Chesterton, the English "poll tax" rebellion, Geoffrey Chaucer and so forth. Comics: Annotated 'Sandman' enhances Neil Gaiman series 2012-01-05T19:20:04Z The great dramas of her career included the conflict in the south Atlantic, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb and the poll tax riots. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z In a news conference that year at Adas Israel synagogue in Cleveland Park, King compared the lack of home rule to poll taxes and other Southern racist anti-voting efforts. In the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z They were free to practice their religion, but they were also required to pay a special poll tax, and they were barred from certain occupations. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z A stronger version would have finally affirmed voting rights and prohibited restrictions like poll taxes or literacy tests. Why the Right to Vote Is Not a Right 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Civil rights activists likened the restriction to a modern-day poll tax and argued that when voters passed Amendment 4, they understood it as completion of time served. In 2018, Florida enfranchised former felons. They’re still fighting for the right to vote. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Our government keeps conditional citizens from voting, historically through poll taxes, now through voter ID laws passed by Republican-held state legislatures that target the poor and minorities to suppress liberal votes. Life in an America Where Some Are Only ‘Conditional Citizens’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The way in which the licence fee, nothing more or less than a poll tax, is divvied up between channels demands urgent overhaul. Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z During the 20th century, the Democratic Party was well known for instituting anti-black policies in the South such as Jim Crow, poll taxes and literacy tests. Dear white progressives: Stop telling black people how to vote 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The conservative author has urged America to bring back literacy tests and poll taxes for voters, referred to Muslims with a racist slur, and has suggested that soccer brings about "moral decay." Now Ann Coulter likes Donald Trump so much she's writing a book, 'In Trump We Trust' 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It happened in the declining years of a Tory government, in the wake of the poll tax riots, during a recession. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z Techniques like poll taxes and literacy tests are quickly invented to suppress the black vote. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z All of which, as Shephard notes, made the disaster of the poll tax more peculiar. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z White leaders of both parties used numerous tactics over several decades to suppress the Black vote, from poll taxes to literacy tests. Mississippi has a history of voter suppression. Many see signs of change as Black voters reengage 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z “It’s a poll tax. It’s a tax on exercising a constitutional right,” said Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, who opposes the tax. California lawmakers approve new tax for guns and ammunition to pay for school safety improvements 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Literacy tests, poll taxes, and all-white primaries kept the electorate tiny, rarely as high as 20% of all eligible voters, white or Black. Atlanta, crucible of democracy: How the city's tortured history got us here 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z White leaders of both parties employed numerous tactics to suppress the minority vote, from the poll tax to literacy tests, for at least a century. Houstonians worry new laws will deter voters who don’t recall the hard-won fight for voting rights 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Connor also advocated for continued use of the poll tax and other tools that purposefully suppressed the ability of Black citizens to vote. The past isn't dead: Teaching the truth about America's racial history is critical 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z In the revised system, provincials had to pay roughly 1 percent tax on their wealth, which included their assets in the form of land, as well as a flat poll tax. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “As a Black man whose grandfather paid a poll tax, this whole ordeal is infuriating,” said Mr. Menefee, a Democrat. Texas Republicans Push New Voting Restrictions Aimed at Houston 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Moore called the legislation an attempt to make it harder for people to vote, comparing it to how her parents once had to save money throughout the year in order to to pay poll taxes. Bill would make it a felony to help people who vote absentee 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Texas was one of five states that still allowed poll taxes when they were outlawed by the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Houstonians worry new laws will deter voters who don’t recall the hard-won fight for voting rights 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z He opposed the introduction of the community charge, or poll tax as it came to be known, but was over-ruled by Thatcher. Obituary: Nigel Lawson 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z In 1965, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed practices designed to disenfranchise Black voters by banning literary tests and poll taxes. ‘Window into history’: Tapes detail LBJ’s stolen election 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z They all came from the poll taxes, I mean, from the poll tax sheet. AP WAS THERE: Uncovering Lyndon B Johnson’s stolen election 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Mr Sheridan rose to prominence in Scotland as the public face of a campaign against paying the controversial poll tax in the late 1980s. Tommy Sheridan 'heartbroken' after his mother dies in flat fire 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z That history motivates former Democratic Senator Rodney Ellis, who sponsored the Senate resolution to abolish the poll tax and remove the old stigma. Houstonians worry new laws will deter voters who don’t recall the hard-won fight for voting rights 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Along with literacy tests, poll taxes and intimidation, the grandfather clause stated that a person could vote only if their grandfather could vote, hence keeping descendants of enslaved people from voting. Daughter of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer honors her mother’s legacy 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He describes the long lines to vote as "a poll tax paid in time," but notes that "voters are simply responding with defiance to the efforts to suppress." High early turnout in Georgia Senate runoff: More evidence that saving democracy motivates voters 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z They went to the poll tax list and got those names. AP WAS THERE: Uncovering Lyndon B Johnson’s stolen election 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Past techniques used to politically disenfranchise Black Americans, including primaries only open to White voters, selectively applied poll taxes, literacy tests and acts of terrorism, were now outlawed or less effective. Georgia’s runoff system was created to dilute Black voting power 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z It's a modern-day version of a poll tax, complete with a racially discriminatory impact. Brennan Center expert on America's decisive moment and the campaign "to end American democracy" 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z These were not accidents: From poll taxes to jellybean counting to Constitution-interpreting requirements, most Southern states had erected massive barriers to Black people voting. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Various constitutional amendments prohibit denying voting rights to women, racial minorities, citizens over age 18 and people unable to pay election-related fees like poll taxes. Does the Constitution Guarantee a Right to Vote? The Answer May Surprise You. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z One example: In 1904, Virginia reenacted its Election Day challenge law and at the same time passed new poll tax and literacy tests for voting. Growing GOP voter challenges have a long history of keeping down the Black vote 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z On Election Days, they dressed in their Sunday best and headed to the ballot box, even though it meant paying poll taxes and passing literacy tests. At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Felony disenfranchisement, along with poll taxes, literacy tests and byzantine voter registration procedures, was among the most effective tools used by racist Southern legislators to effectively nullify the Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Closing polling locations in Black and Brown neighborhoods is the new poll tax or literacy test. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Virginia Board of Elections, which outlawed poll taxes; in federal legislation in 1993 that set ground rules for registering new voters and removing existing voters from the rolls. Does the Constitution Guarantee a Right to Vote? The Answer May Surprise You. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z In January 1964, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, prohibiting the imposition of poll taxes on voters, was finally ratified. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Many southern states had used a poll tax, a tax placed on voting, to prevent poor African Americans from voting. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z However, the states can no longer limit the right to vote based on race, sex, failure to pay a poll tax or age if a voter is 18 years or older. GOP-backed "independent state legislature" Supreme Court case could reverse 200 years of progress 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Her decision to pioneer the controversial poll tax in Scotland combined with her strategy of forcing old industries to change or die drove many Scottish voters into the arms of her political opponents. Scottish independence: Will indyref2 be a re-run of 2014? 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps its most modern comparison is to a law in Texas, enacted in 1966 soon after the 24th Amendment outlawed poll taxes. EXPLAINER: Can Pa. GOP candidate make voters re-register? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He did publicly support the abolition of the poll tax, which Congress eventually accomplished in 1941. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Several southern states continued to require residents to pay poll taxes in order to vote in state elections until 1966 when, in the case of Harper v. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Some of his constituents had participated in sit-ins, paid poll taxes, attended segregated schools and lived through a long stretch during which their voices were shut out at the highest level of local government. Texas GOP power grab threatens “biggest regression in minority voting rights” since Civil Rights era 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “People’s right to vote is being taken away. It’s almost like the 21st-century version of the poll tax, so to speak, when they were asked, ‘How many bubbles are in this bar of soap?’” Mail Ballot Rejections Surge in Texas, With Signs of a Race Gap 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Some states charged a poll tax, or payment, to vote. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They were also attracted by the economic benefit for Muslims of not having to pay a poll tax. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Conservatives argue that these laws reduce or eliminate fraud on the part of voters, while liberals believe they disproportionally disenfranchise the poor and minorities and constitute a modern-day poll tax. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Nor could it lay a poll tax as a condition for voting in federal elections, for that would violate the 24th Amendment. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The proposal would strip language on segregated schools, poll taxes and language that allowed a brutal convict lease system that sold Black men, often arrested under questionable circumstances, into forced labor. Alabama seeks to remove racist language from Constitution 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z His opinion opened the door to the kinds of restrictions — poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses — that Southern states would eventually use to disenfranchise their Black populations. Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Just Doing What the Supreme Court Does 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z They paid a poll tax each year in exchange for exemption from military duties. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandfather clauses exempted individuals from taking literacy tests or paying poll taxes if they or their fathers or grandfathers had been permitted to vote prior to a certain point in time. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z By 1790, however, Freeman was in arrears on his poll taxes, and his land was then in jeopardy. The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z They view the changes as a subtler form of past ballot restrictions such as literacy tests and poll taxes that were used to disenfranchise Black voters, a vital Democratic constituency. On voting rights, Biden’s power to act on his own is limited 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z "I think about the 1950s, where you had poll taxes, where you had literacy tests, where Jim Crow was the law of the land," said Bolding, who is Black. "Threat to democracy": Arizona GOP voting bill would allow legislature to “reject” election results 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z We haven’t yet seen a move to reinstate the poll tax. Column: They never thought they'd see a Black president, or another assault on voting rights 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z "I've been voting many, many years and I've never missed a vote," Thompson told the station, recalling paying a poll tax to vote in the 1950s. 95-year-old WWII vet says mail ballot application was denied twice under new Texas GOP voting law 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Oliva called the new measure a “poll tax,” referring to a common way that governments drew revenue from people regardless of their income from ancient times until the 19th century. Gun-rights group sues California city for requiring liability insurance 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z These were not accidents: From poll taxes to jellybean counting to constitution-interpreting requirements, most Southern states had erected massive barriers to Black people voting. GOP's new voter suppression tactic is also an old one: "Election police" 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z —In 1942, a five-day filibuster by Southern senators killed a bill that would have eliminated poll taxes, which were used to disenfranchise Black voters. EXPLAINER: Why is filibuster such a barrier to voting bill? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The opinions applied or interpreted state laws that banned interracial marriage, segregated public schools and disenfranchised Black citizens by requiring poll taxes and literacy tests, among other discriminatory practices. Va. attorney general overturns 58 historic legal opinions that perpetuated racism 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Voting rights groups view the changes as a subtler form of the ballot restrictions like literacy tests and poll taxes once used to disenfranchise Black voters, now a key Democratic constituency. Voting rights groups worry Biden’s Ga. speech comes too late 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z They view the GOP-backed changes in voting laws as a subtler form of ballot restrictions like literacy tests and poll taxes once used to disenfranchise Black voters, a key Democratic constituency. Invoking Jan. 6, Dems pivot to fight for voting legislation 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Local election clerks have sounded the alarm over the proposed initiative, arguing that the stricter voter ID requirement amounts to a "poll tax" and will restrict ballot access while causing confusion among voters. Election clerks “panic” over Michigan GOP voting scheme that could eliminate 20% of polling sites 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Similar legislation continued to spur filibuster challenges until poll taxes were eliminated in 1964. EXPLAINER: Why is filibuster such a barrier to voting bill? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Virginia’s past attorneys general issued scores of opinions applying laws that imposed poll taxes, whites-only primaries, segregated voter lists and literacy tests. Va. attorney general overturns 58 historic legal opinions that perpetuated racism 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Tired of seeing their friends and family pay poll taxes, face rigged voter literacy tests, use public restrooms with separate entrances for “white ladies” and “colored women.” Perspective | Two sisters recall civil rights activism, and ponder preparing the next generation 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z And it includes descriptions of former voting requirements that were generally used to disenfranchise Black residents, including literacy tests and poll taxes. Alabama Begins Removing Racist Language From Its Constitution 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z This system protected minority voters from all sorts of intended or unintended voting discrimination, recognizing that discrimination can be as obvious as a poll tax or as subtle as nudging a voting district boundary. Opinion | The John Lewis Act would restore key voting protections. Democrats should fight for it. 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z If you go back to poll taxes and literacy tests, that's exactly what the Voting Rights Act was correcting. Ex-neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini: "The words I used to say are now part of the mainstream" 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z The American Civil Liberties Union and its Georgia chapter filed a lawsuit in April 2020 saying that Georgia’s postage requirement for absentee ballots and ballot applications effectively imposes a poll tax and is therefore unconstitutional. Appeals court: Postage for absentee ballots isn’t a poll tax 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z “While literacy tests and poll taxes no longer exist, certain states and local jurisdictions have passed laws that are modern-day barriers to voting.” House Passes a Voting Rights Bill, but a G.O.P. Blockade Awaits in the Senate 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Her grandmother had to take literacy tests and pay poll taxes to be able to vote. ‘There’s no playbook’: Exiled Texas Democrats race to keep up momentum as Republicans in Austin ramp up pressure for their return 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z She describes how Coventry women were also at the heart of a campaign against the poll tax "which is quite apt when you link that to Lady Godiva". Coventry City of Culture: The women who helped shape a 'city of justice' 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z The initial law targeted states and localities with low minority turnout and a history of using hurdles such as literacy tests and poll taxes to disenfranchise minority voters. Democrats craft voting bill with eye on Supreme Court fight 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Adopted in 1902 — and set down in beautiful, flowing handwriting on display at the state library — the constitution imposed a poll tax to keep poor Black residents from voting. He helped rewrite Virginia’s constitution to guarantee Black voting rights — ‘a blessing’ 50 years ago 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z I knew the cursory, surface-level facts about poll taxes and literacy tests, the Freedom Riders and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Altering our vision of voting 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z It took another 16 years, and a constitutional amendment, to end the Jim Crow tactic of poll taxes. Opinion | Virginia and many other states have quietly made voting easier 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z A flagship policy of Margaret Thatcher's government, the Community Charge, more commonly called the poll tax, was eventually replaced after triggering mass civil disobedience and riots and some were sent to prison for non-payment. Coventry City of Culture: The women who helped shape a 'city of justice' 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z In her ruling, Judge Ramos wrote that the law “was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose” and “constitutes an unconstitutional poll tax.” Why Democrats Are Reluctantly Making Voter ID Laws a Bargaining Chip 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “To call RCV voter suppression, or compare it to a poll tax, is **incredibly** wrong and dangerous. Stop it.” Rancor Between Adams and Yang Marks End of Bruising Mayoral Campaign 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Democrats said the legislation — which is opposed by clerks and voting-rights advocates — would impose a “poll tax” and suppress the vote by making it harder to participate. Michigan Republicans pass bills to add voter ID requirements 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Sanders last year praised former President Barack Obama for calling to eliminate the filibuster in response to "modern-day poll taxes, gerrymandering, ID requirements, and other forms of voter suppression" that Trump has supported. Trump praises Joe Manchin for defending filibuster despite calling to eliminate it for years 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z "Coventry was quite important in the development of the anti poll tax campaign - and of course we won," Mrs Nellist added. Coventry City of Culture: The women who helped shape a 'city of justice' 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Historically, those who wanted to block the political power of African Americans used terror, massacres, poll taxes, literacy tests and myriad other tactics to achieve their goals. Voter suppression laws just ‘Jim Crow in new clothes’ 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z "Jim Crow" refers to a system that, before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, systematically denied Black Americans their constitutional right to vote through “literacy tests,” poll taxes and other measures. Analysis | The false and misleading claims President Biden made during his first 100 days in office They required voters to pay poll taxes, then plundered Black communities. Opinion | Now is the time for a Third Reconstruction — abolishing Jim Crow once and for all 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Past generations used “revenue collection” to justify poll taxes. Opinion | We need everyone if we’re going to beat the attack on voting in Texas 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Obviously Jim Crow — and their laws, such as poll tax, literacy tax, grandfather clauses — was about preserving white power. "The Sum of Us" author on what racism costs white people and the lie of a zero-sum racial hierarchy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z He compared the efforts — which include limits on early and absentee voting — to the Jim Crow-era laws that blocked Black Americans from voting in Southern states by imposing poll taxes, literacy tests and other restrictions. Biden slams Republicans on voting rights limits, defends record on border 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z "Jim Crow" refers to a system that, before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, systematically denied Black Americans their constitutional right to vote through “literacy tests,” poll taxes and other measures. Analysis | The false and misleading claims President Biden made during his first 100 days in office Because of poll taxes, bogus literacy tests and the ever-present threat of violent retribution, only 14 percent of eligible Black people were registered to vote in Alabama and just 5 percent in Mississippi. Perspective | A civil rights veteran’s advice for the next generation: Move beyond the protests 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “The last time we had this much paperwork we called it a poll tax,” said Isabel Longoria, Harris County’s elections administrator. GOP efforts to tighten voting laws gets underway in Texas 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z A new state constitutional amendment, ratified in 1900, required passage of a literacy and education test before registering to vote, as well as pre-payment of a poll tax. How Southern Republicans found a white-power loophole in the Voting Rights Act 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “It’s been used to stop anti-lynching bills, to uphold the racist poll tax, to delay civil rights legislation – and more recently healthcare, immigration and gun violence reform,” Maye said. 'The Senate is broken': proposals for major changes to outdated system gather steam 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z He was referring to a system that, before passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, systematically denied Black Americans their constitutional right to vote through “literacy tests,” poll taxes and other measures. Analysis | The false and misleading claims President Biden made during his first 100 days in office This badly disguised poll tax still hasn’t been overturned. Opinion | Running an election flawlessly just isn’t good enough for vote-suppressing Florida Republicans 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z But those fights, which led to passage of the Voting Rights Act and outlawed poll taxes with the 24th Amendment, split both parties. 'Unraveling': America's two major parties are at war over the rules that govern voting 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Without that change, some lawmakers said the measure would create a poll tax, meaning a fee to vote. Missouri House tries again with voter photo ID law 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z The legislation would suspend literacy tests required for African Americans to determine voter eligibility and challenged the use of poll taxes when signed into law on Aug. 6. Selma's 'Bloody Sunday': What to know about the march for civil rights 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z In 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified as South Dakota became the 38th state to endorse it. Today in History 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Those Dixiecrats opposed anti-lynching laws, favored poll taxes, orchestrated massive resistance to school desegregation, wanted to keep Black people at the back of the bus and out of White restaurants and hotels. Perspective | The riot at the Capitol shouldn’t have been a surprise. We were all warned. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In the event that the laws and Jim Crow voter-suppression tactics — like poll taxes and literacy tests — failed, Black voters who tried to exercise their franchise were often met with brute violence. Knocking on Two Million Doors in Georgia 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Attorneys says this is “effectively a poll tax.” Suit: Tennessee makes it too hard to restore voting rights 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The 1965 Voting Rights Act, which abolished literacy tests, poll taxes and other ways of suppressing the Black vote, had not yet been passed. 'I'm proud of the city': the volunteers fighting voter suppression in Philadelphia 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z For example, state legislatures in Florida passed a law requiring ex-felons to pay all fines before being eligible to vote, which harkens back to the poll taxes of the Jim Crow era. Column: Lakers' voting push extends beyond Staples Center and the 2020 election 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed a district court finding that the payment provision amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax that discriminated against poor former prisoners. Judges nominated by President Trump play key role in upholding voting limits ahead of Election Day 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in September that the law did not amount to an unconstitutional poll tax. 'Baffled' and 'scared,' U.S. felons face hurdles after regaining right to vote 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Ida Hammonds, a 72-year-old retired hair stylist in Houston, said she grew up hearing her father’s stories about poll taxes and other methods used to disenfranchise Black voters. Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Pearson, now a Trump administration official, touted his bill as a way to overcome the “poll tax” of needing to buy postage to return mail ballots. Ballot drop box ruling shows Legislature must accept fiscal reality 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z By a 6-4 vote, it reversed a lower court ruling that the measure amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax. Court battles shape presidential election, as Republicans score Wisconsin victory at U.S. Supreme Court 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z He said he remembers hearing his parents and grandparents talk about poll taxes and citizenship tests, such as having to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar before being allowed to vote. A barrier, an inspiration, a promise: America in Line An amendment would clear the way for excising language from the constitution that bans mixed-race marriages, allows poll taxes, and mandates school segregation. Voters could remove racist phrases from Alabama Constitution 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z There are no poll taxes anymore, no tests on the state constitution. AP Road Trip: In Mississippi, Black voters face many hurdles 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Voting-rights activists sued, likening the law to an unconstitutional poll tax. In last-minute push, DeSantis administration urges Florida election officials to remove felons who owe fines from voting rolls 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z By a 6-4 vote, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that the measure amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax. Factbox: Key court victories as campaigns battle over U.S. presidential election 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Critics called that a poll tax, but the U.S. 11th District Court of Appeals recently sided with the state, overturning a lower court ruling. Florida felon purge would be too late for this election 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It is described by critics as a modern-day poll tax. Analysis | As Trump refuses to say he’ll accept election results, Republicans press to make voting harder 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z White-supremacist poll watchers emerged in the Reconstruction era, along with poll taxes designed to prevent supposed repeat voting and other methods to suppress Black voters. How Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Lie Is Disenfranchising Americans 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The judge rejected plaintiffs’ contention that postage was akin to a “poll tax.” Judge declines to intervene on absentee ballot rules 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z A torturous legal battle ensued with a lower court ruling the law was unconstitutional because it amounted to a poll tax, but that decision was reversed by a federal appeals court on Sept. 11. Opinion | The racist anti-vote effort by Florida Republicans hits a new low 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z They became the deciding factor in a 6-to-4 ruling that overturned a lower-court finding that the payment provision amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax that discriminates against poor former prisoners. Barbara Lagoa refused to recuse herself from Florida felons’ voting case, creating controversy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “Either this is a poll tax or not, but it can’t be one or the other.” Florida’s attorney general requests inquiry into Mike Bloomberg’s voting effort 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Women’s suffrage, secured 100 years ago, still left Black women and men disenfranchised as a result of poll taxes, literacy tests and other obstacles. Opinion | Ginsburg’s vision led us to a better America. We can do the same. 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z A recognition that achieving racial equality required a strong government fueled Black progressivism, which demanded anti-lynching federal legislation; eradication of the poll tax and other barriers to voting; and expansion of quality public education. How the Black Vote Became a Monolith 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “That was the whole point of poll taxes in the post-Reconstruction era: It was about keeping people away from the polls, not about paying the tax,” she said. How Republicans Undermined Ex-Felon Voting Rights in Florida 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z “The Twenty-Fourth Amendment precludes Florida from conditioning voting in federal elections on payment of these fees and costs,” Hinkle wrote, referencing the constitutional amendment that bans poll taxes. Barbara Lagoa refused to recuse herself from Florida felons’ voting case, creating controversy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z These included Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests and the threat of violence. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z When southern Black women tried to exercise their new right to vote, they would be foiled by discriminatory literacy tests, poll taxes, or just plain violence. The banality of evocation: Remembering a feminist movement that hasn’t ended 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Around 1920, Black women set up “suffrage schools” to teach each other how to pay a poll tax or pass the literacy test imposed on Black Americans by local election officials. Opinion | Kamala Harris: Voting is the best way to honor generations of women who paved the way for me 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, in May, Judge Robert L. Hinkle of the United States District Court in Tallahassee ruled that the Legislature’s provisions amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax. How Republicans Undermined Ex-Felon Voting Rights in Florida 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It took three attempts at literacy tests designed to disenfranchise Blacks and the payment of poll taxes for Hamer to obtain voting rights. Perspective | Black Christians have lived out their faith by fighting for voting access 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He also said requiring any felon to pay court costs that are imposed separately from a fine as a requirement to vote is also a poll tax. Florida felon voting law questioned by US appellate court 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The 24th amendment was ratified, eliminating poll taxes, which constitute financial restriction to voting. Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Black people endured poll taxes, tossed ballots, even lynchings by whites intent on keeping them from voting. Despite virus threat, Black voters wary of voting by mail 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z This bill was delayed by Southern opposition because it did not require soldiers, White or Black, to pay the notorious poll tax. Opinion | Trump’s call to postpone elections is an outrageous break with American faith in democracy 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of what amounts to a poll tax that Florida officials will use to prevent ex-felons from voting in 2020. Get over your Russia obsession, liberals: Vladimir Putin's not responsible for America's sorry state 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Lawsuits filed in Florida by the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA, in Georgia by Black Voters Matter and elsewhere argue that stamps constitute a monetary requirement akin to an illegal poll tax. Cost, hassle of stamps questioned as mail-in voting surges 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Soon, with the rise of the Jim Crow era, black Americans’ right to vote would be systematically denied through the use of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, property tests, intimidation and literacy tests. Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Plaintiffs argued the requirement for voters to pay the return postage was akin to a poll tax. SC will pay postage for all mail-in ballots in November 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The poll tax riots, which the Farm’s Hooton calls “a blow to the twitching corpse of Thatcherism”, had happened in March, and the Gulf war loomed. Twisting my melon, man! The baggy, brilliant indie-rave summer of 1990 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Byrd was the author of “massive resistance” to school desegregation; he supported poll taxes and literacy tests; and he opposed the integration of the armed forces. Opinion | What’s in a name? Sometimes, hatred. 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z When Mose Norman, an affluent black man, showed up in Ocoee to vote, he was turned away because precinct workers said he hadn’t paid his poll tax. As racism protests roil US, Florida revisits dark past 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Critics of the law have called this payment requirement a modern-day poll tax. Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z A similar rule on financial obligations in Florida was struck down by a federal court last month, after voting rights groups argued it constituted a poll tax. Iowa governor pledges to restore voting rights to some felons 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z That is likely unconstitutional and amounts to a poll tax on Iowans who are unable to afford to repay crime-related debts. Editorial Roundup: 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z If you’re thinking that the 24th Amendment did away with poll taxes, your perception of taxes is too narrow. For Racial Justice, Employees Need Paid Hours Off for Voting 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z On Friday, in another fundraising email, Eyman compared the actions of Kitsap County elections officials, in a dispute over the county voters guide, to a poll tax. Tim Eyman’s lawyer says anti-tax activist is victim of ‘judicial lynching’ 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But in the South, African American men and women remained disenfranchised through state-imposed literacy tests, poll taxes and violence. 19 facts about the 19th Amendment on its 100th anniversary 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z A group of Floridians and voting rights organizations last June sued DeSantis, a Republican and an ally of President Donald Trump, arguing the law amounts to an illegal poll tax. Florida governor asks court to stay felon voting ruling 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z That system violates at least two provisions of the Constitution, Judge Hinkle ruled: the Equal Protection Clause and the 24th Amendment, which bans poll taxes. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z To an economist’s eye, the 24th Amendment eliminated only poll taxes levied in dollars. For Racial Justice, Employees Need Paid Hours Off for Voting 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z “Censoring candidate statements discriminates against these elderly and financially disadvantaged voters and is totally unacceptable — poll taxes were banned decades ago,” Eyman wrote. Tim Eyman’s lawyer says anti-tax activist is victim of ‘judicial lynching’ 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z One was the introduction of the poll tax in the 1980s, which crippled Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and paved the way for her downfall in 1990. Outcry Over Cummings Turns Public Against Johnson for 1st Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z A group of Floridians and voting rights organizations sued Republican Governor Ron DeSantis last June, arguing that the law amounts to an illegal poll tax. U.S. court rules Florida cannot force felons to pay fees before voting 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Democrats, including many of the presidential candidates who campaigned in New Hampshire, said the new law amounts to voter suppression by essentially imposing a “poll tax” in the form of license and vehicle registration fees. Court answer’s judge’s questions in New Hampshire voter case 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z At the time of its passage with 65 percent of the vote, Amendment 4 was hailed as the largest reenfranchisement of voters since poll taxes and literacy tests were banned during the civil rights era. In Florida, felons must pay court debts before they can vote. But with no system to do so, many have found it impossible. 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z But he likened the state’s financial requirement to a poll tax on felons who are too poor to fully settle up. With trial over, Florida felons await voting rights ruling 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Advocates also want states to pick up the cost of postage on mail-in ballots and registration forms, calling it an unconstitutional poll tax. Vote safely by mail in November? Not so fast, say Republicans 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But he likened the state’s financial requirement to a poll tax if it continues to deny the vote to felons too poor to fully settle up. Trial set to begin over Florida’s felon voting rights law 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The complaint alleged that requiring voters to pay their own postage when submitting mail-in absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications was tantamount to a poll tax. Chaotic Wisconsin election signals virus-related voting battles ahead 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The plaintiffs argue that Republicans effectively established a poll tax, a practice banned in 1964 with the ratification of the 24th Amendment. In Florida, felons must pay court debts before they can vote. But with no system to do so, many have found it impossible. 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Constitution bans the imposition of a poll tax, the lawsuit says. Lawsuit: Georgia mail-in ballot postage is unconstitutional 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z He likened the requirement to a poll tax. Florida governor loses latest bid to curtail felon voting 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In short, it’s a de facto poll tax creating a cash-register democracy. Review | In ballot initiatives, they made their voices heard. Then came the backlash. 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But Republican lawmakers subsequently passed a measure requiring that ex-felons repay all court-mandated fees before registering to vote — a move that some activists labeled a modern-day poll tax. Voting behind bars: Cook County’s huge jail becomes a first-time polling precinct 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z As an ardent believer in democracy, Bloomberg is no doubt aggrieved by Florida Republicans’ efforts to reverse engineer a poll tax against the will of the voters, making it harder for felons to vote. What Bloomberg's $500m could have bought instead 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The three-judge panel upheld a lower court’s preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the separate law implementing the voter-approved Florida requirement, which critics say amounts to an unfair poll tax that would disenfranchise many released felons. Iowa bill ties restitution payment to felon voting right 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Civil rights groups challenged the law in court, alleging that it amounted to the illegal poll taxes that were put in place after the U.S. U.S. appeals court rules Florida cannot bar felons from voting over unpaid fees 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “This law is a modern-day poll tax. This ruling recognizes the gravity of elected officials trying to circumvent Amendment 4 to create roadblocks to voting based on wealth.” Florida’s Amendment 4 - giving former felons voting rights - upheld by U.S. appeals court 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z They soon passed a law to suppress student voting with a sly hidden poll tax. NH primary showed how student turnout can overcome voter suppression 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z This functions as a poll tax that, of course, most heavily affects Florida’s people of color, since the poverty rates in our communities are higher. Perspective | Think Iowa was a mess? Black voters deal with similar chaos all the time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Lynchings, poll taxes, literacy tests and whites-only primary elections are unlawful. Opinion | This Black History Month, let’s focus on the present 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Republican lawmakers were denounced nationally for creating a “poll tax,” but they justified the harsh terms in the bill by citing the words of the amendment’s own authors. U.S. judges cast doubt on Florida law requiring ex-felons to pay before they can vote 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z He agreed with voter rights advocates that imposing the debt requirement on impoverished felons amounted to a poll tax. Appellate court weighs Florida law on felon voting rights 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z That is uncomfortably close to a poll tax, the vile Jim Crow voter suppression tactic that was made unconstitutional in the 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He wrote for the Guardian, about the poll tax, nuclear power and the ozone layer. Terry Jones obituary 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Opponents called it the equivalent of a poll tax and sued. State voting, registration laws vary and change frequently 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Civil rights groups said the Republican-backed law is effectively a poll tax because many people never pay back the money they owe as part of their sentence. Florida Republicans win latest attempt to restrict voting rights of ex-felons 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Civil rights groups called the measure an unconstitutional poll tax, historically used to keep African Americans from the polls. Florida ended a Jim Crow voting law. A year later, people are still fighting for a voice 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Case and Deaton view this extra cost as a “poll tax,” meaning it is levied on every individual regardless of their ability to pay. Every American family basically pays an $8,000 ‘poll tax’ under the U.S. health system, top economists say 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Case and Deaton call this extra cost a “poll tax,” meaning it is levied on every individual regardless of their ability to pay. Every American family basically pays an $8,000 ‘poll tax’ under the U.S. health system, top economists say 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Martinez later joined the League of United Latin American Citizens, then the nation’s largest civil rights organization for Latinos, and raised money for Mexican Americans to pay their Texas “poll taxes” so they could vote. Benny Martinez, Latino civil rights leader, dies at 85 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “By holding Floridians’ right to vote hostage, the Florida supreme court is permitting the unconstitutional modern-day poll tax.” Florida Republicans win latest attempt to restrict voting rights of ex-felons 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The state imposed poll taxes as one way to suppress voting rights, and the Dahmers would collect the money in their store as a way to empower other African Americans to register to vote. Mississippi university honoring civil rights activist Dahmer 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z They and he believe it is no longer appropriate that it is a poll tax on every owner of a television. General election: Matt Hancock apologises for boy having to sleep on hospital floor – live news 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But Thatcher’s extraordinary run came to an end with a series of disasters and misjudgments at home, especially the hugely unpopular poll tax. Review | Margaret Thatcher’s last stand 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Democrats, including many of the presidential candidates campaigning in New Hampshire, said the new law amounts to voter suppression by essentially imposing a “poll tax” in the form of license and vehicle registration fees. Request denied to block New Hampshire’s voter residency law 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Or in March, 1990, when some of the worst rioting in modern British history swept through central London, as thousands of citizens protested the new poll tax. It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z No matter how many ways the GOP tried to dress this up, this was a poll tax. Voter suppression is destroying US democracy. In 2020, expect more | Carol Anderson 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Among them were poll taxes, literacy tests and residency requirements. Opinion | The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Republicans in the state legislature, however, essentially gutted the will of the people earlier this year, attaching new conditions regarding repayment of fines and fees that many compared to an unconstitutional poll tax. Tuesday's big election winner? Election reform — if politicians listen to voters 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Advocates sued, comparing the requirement to a poll tax. Florida high court hears arguments on felon voting rights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z He compared it to a poll tax “designed to keep young people from participating in the political process because they are not supportive of the Republican agenda.” Primary election chief back in spotlight after near-ouster 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z While Florida reached back to 19th-century Jim Crow to try to institute a poll tax, other states like Georgia are inviting full-fledged 21st-century hacking to tilt elections. Voter suppression is destroying US democracy. In 2020, expect more | Carol Anderson 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Radicals in the Congress complained that states could still prevent freedpeople from voting by race-neutral ruses such as poll taxes and literacy tests. Review | The achievements, and compromises, of two Reconstruction-era amendments 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The constitution they crafted subjected prospective voters to a literacy test and poll tax — effectively disenfranchising nearly all African Americans. Mississippi governor’s race taking place under Jim Crow-era rules after judge refuses to block them 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Hinkle was particularly sympathetic to arguments by lawyers representing disenfranchised felons who asserted that the financial requirement was akin to a poll tax. South Carolina driving rule allegedly criminalizes poverty 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Hinkle was particularly sympathetic to arguments by lawyers representing disenfranchised felons who asserted that the financial requirement was akin to a poll tax. South Carolina driving rule allegedly criminalizes poverty 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A federal judge agreed and ruled last week that forcing poor felons to pay debts before casting a vote was equivalent to a poll tax and violates the Constitution. Ex-cons take Florida to court over voting rights; say requirement to pay fines is a ‘poll tax’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Funding healthcare via insurance premiums would be acceptable if this private poll tax was small. Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans | Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z In his ruling, Judge Hinkle, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, left open the question of whether the repayment provisions were in fact a poll tax. Judge Temporarily Blocks Florida Law Restricting Voting by Ex-Felons 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Amendment 4 supporters called the new law a dangerous “poll tax” designed to disenfranchise voters of color. Ex-prisoners sue over Republican bid to restrict voting rights 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z District Court in Tallahassee, arguing the requirement constituted a poll tax. Federal judge hears case to restore vote to Florida felons 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Republican officials, immediately following this victory, approved a new law restricting enfranchisement to those who paid fines, fees and restitution — a modern-day poll tax. Republicans have rigged the maps and fixed elections — why won't Democrats talk about it? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Proposals such as Medicare for All would replace the current privatized poll tax by taxes based on ability to pay. Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans | Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The 24th Amendment removed poll taxes used to stifle the right of citizens to vote for their representatives. Tennessee editorial roundup 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z A year after that, the Voting Rights Act outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests that had been used across the Jim Crow South to suppress the black vote. Racism has not been relegated to history, Biden says on anniversary of 1963 church bombing 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Voting rights groups immediately sued in federal court and likened the requirement to an illegal poll tax. Florida high court set to clarify voting rights for felons 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z While some opponents compare the requirements to a modern-day “poll tax” — Florida’s governor says it’s simply a part of a felon's sentence completion. Florida’s felons face unexpected obstacles before voting in 2020 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z It would abolish the huge poll tax they currently shoulder, and the data show that for most workers, it would lead to the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation. Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans | Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The most significant step is a federal lawsuit to challenge what advocates say is an illegal “poll tax” placed on up to 1.5 million so-called “returning citizens” by the Florida legislature this summer. The voting rights advocates fighting Florida's 'poll tax' on former felons 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The plaintiffs say the new law requiring all fines to be paid is the equivalent of a poll tax, creating an unconstitutional barrier to voting. Florida law requires ex-felons required to pay court fines before being allowed to vote again 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z That process echoes mechanisms like poll taxes that were used to racially curate voter rolls in the Deep South. The Supreme Court Just Legitimized a Cornerstone Element of Voter Suppression 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z No wonder critics of the law call it “a poll tax.” Florida editorial roundup 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Insurance premiums are the most regressive possible type of tax: a poll tax. Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans | Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Democrats argued that requiring the payment of fines and fees constituted a “poll tax,” creating a hurdle that voters didn’t intend when they approved the amendment. Voting rights group raising money to pay felons’ fees 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z That charge resonates among many sectors in the Deep South, where a poll tax was on the books after Reconstruction and through the Jim Crow era. Florida law requires ex-felons required to pay court fines before being allowed to vote again 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z This “theoretical fraud concern,” as the League of Women Voters of Oregon put it, is no reason to impose a new requirement that is “reminiscent of poll taxes.” Editorials from around Oregon 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Constitution and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment’s ban on a poll tax. Florida editorial roundup 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The health insurance poll tax hammers the working class and the middle class. Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans | Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z In many places, particularly in the South, there were multiple efforts to suppress the black vote — poll taxes, literacy tests and acts of intimidation — essentially disenfranchising black males and females alike. Mississippi editorial roundup 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “This measure is nothing but a poll tax that would effectively disenfranchise those who are unable to pay,” Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, an Ohio Democrat, said during a recent congressional hearing in Florida. Voter surge in 2018 prompts voting reforms, restrictions 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Until the mid-1960s, few African-Americans in the state were registered to vote, because poll taxes and violence widely disenfranchised them. Eric Holder says the system used for electing governors in Mississippi "has its basis in racism" 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Few black residents were registered to vote in the state from after Reconstruction until the mid-1960s because of poll taxes and violence. Lawsuit: Mississippi has racist way of choosing governors 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But it provided no relief for workers who fund their healthcare through a huge and growing poll tax. Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans | Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Few black residents were registered to vote in the state from after Reconstruction until the mid-1960s because of poll taxes and violence. Lawsuit: Mississippi has racist way of choosing governors 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Thatcher was ejected from Downing Street in 1990, largely for insisting on unpopular policies such as the poll tax. ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The amendments covered black people and women, allowed the people to elect senators instead of state legislatures, permitted District citizens to vote for president, abolished poll taxes and lowered the voting age to 18. Perspective | Almost 16 million voters were removed from the rolls. We should be alarmed. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Andrew Gillum, who narrowly lost the Florida gubernatorial election to DeSantis, characterized it as a “poll tax” that disenfranchises citizens of color. The Fight for Voting Rights in Florida Isn’t Over 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Amendment 4 in Florida constitutes the biggest single expansion of voting rights in the United States since poll taxes and literacy tests were abolished a half-century ago. Opinion | Florida’s Republicans want to revive the state’s racist past 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z "This is a poll tax," Booker wrote Wednesday. Florida bill calling for ex-felons to settle debts before voting advances after House vote 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z In theory, the 19th Amendment extended the vote to all American women, but in practice, many restrictions remained: poll taxes, literacy requirements and other limits designed to disenfranchise members of minority groups. This Smithsonian exhibition follows the long road to women’s suffrage 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Representative James Grant, a Republican and the subcommittee’s chairman, who sponsored the bill, disputed that characterization, saying it “diminishes the atrocity of what a poll tax actually was,” The Miami Herald reported. Bill to Set Terms on Voting Rights for Ex-Felons Is Approved by Florida House Panel 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “It’s not only targeting the poor and is targeting minorities, but it’s blatantly unconstitutional as a poll tax,” said Hattersley. Florida felon voting rights restoration bill draws concerns 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The GOP legislation would diminish that reform by resurrecting a new kind of poll tax, denying the ballot box to those of meager means. Opinion | Florida’s Republicans want to revive the state’s racist past 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But state Democrats -- as well as some Democratic candidates for president -- slammed the proposal as a form of "poll tax" that would discriminate against minorities and the poor. Florida bill calling for ex-felons to settle debts before voting advances after House vote 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z She will discuss her book, “FEARLESS: How a poor Virginia seamstress took on Jim Crow, beat the poll tax and changed her city forever.” Daughter of civil rights leader to speak at book fair 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z When Southerners instituted a series of segregationist laws, poll taxes, and literacy exams with the explicit purpose of returning African-Americans to a life akin to pre-civil war chattel slavery, they named these laws Jim Crow. Behind the legacy of America's blackface 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Near arrogance is suggesting this is a poll tax. Members, to suggest that this is a poll tax inherently diminishes what a poll tax actually is.” Florida felon voting rights restoration bill draws concerns 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Before the Voting Rights Act, there were all-white primaries, literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses and violent intimidation. Voter suppression carries slavery's three-fifths clause into the present 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Voter registration in many Texas counties is handled by the tax assessor, a holdover from the Jim Crow practice of collecting a poll tax, Mr. Ray said. Texas Official’s Claim About Citizenship of 95,000 Is Called Into Doubt 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The court ruled that poll taxes were unconstitutional. Daughter of civil rights leader to speak at book fair 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Through skillful application of undemocratic measures such as the poll tax and literacy tests, he kept the Virginia electorate small, compliant and overwhelmingly white. Opinion | Let’s set the record straight on Capitol Square 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z When she first registered to vote in Alabama, she was subjected to a Jim Crow-era poll tax and a test on Alabama’s history. Meet Annie Easley, the barrier-breaking mathematician who helped us explore the solar system 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z North Carolina’s brand-new poll tax, literacy test and grandfather clause – the forebears of today’s voter ID law, voter purge and felon clause – ensured the defeat of the last black congressman. This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Hamm went on to meet Martin Luther King Jr., to picket and to get arrested over more school and equity issues, the segregation of theaters and the poll tax. Perspective | Is Virginia ready to give up its Robert E. Lee worship? A school’s new name will be a test. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In a press conference earlier this month, Democratic state Sen. David Blount compared the state’s restrictions to a poll tax. Civil rights lawsuit claims Mississippi made it nearly impossible to vote by absentee ballot 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Opponents of our state’s voter ID law claimed that requiring voters to purchase an identification card in order to cast a ballot was essentially a poll tax. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But she joined other Southern senators to oppose anti-lynching laws and to support the poll tax. ‘I’m no lady. I’m a member of Congress’: The first women who roared into the House 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Strict registration laws, bogus voter-fraud prosecutions, aggressive purges of the rolls, polling place closures and the like echo the poll taxes and literacy tests of earlier generations. Opinion | The Best Way to Protect Democracy Is to Practice It 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z It wasn’t sustainable when the poll tax and literacy test gave disproportionate power in Congress to Southern Democrats. A threat to democracy: Republicans' war on minority voters 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Sherman Packard, the Republican party’s deputy house speaker and HB 1264’s main sponsor, said any comparison to a poll tax was “a total bunch of BS”. 'It's a poll tax': how New Hampshire became a battlefield for voting rights 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Tom Druckett, a professor of computer science at the city’s university, last waited for a bus like this when it was headed to the poll tax protest. People's Vote march brings a mixed bag of protesters to London 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The poll tax, or community charge, was supposed to make local council finance fairer and more accountable. Major: Universal credit like 80s poll tax 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Most African-Americans for much of U.S. history were disenfranchised, then effectively deterred from voting via poll taxes and literacy tests until passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed racial discrimination in voting. AP FACT CHECK: Trump fudges history on black vote, drug cost 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Barriers came in the form of poll taxes and literacy tests, along with the looming threat of persecution and violence. A New Class of Voting Rights Activists Picks Up the Mantle in Mississippi 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Some tactics were less than subtle: poll taxes, literacy tests, limited hours for voting, allowing only whites to vote in primary elections. Review | How voter suppression threatens our democracy 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z That means that Chequers prior to implementation is more unpopular than the poll tax was prior to implementation. Theresa May's Brexit plan 'will need to be reworked', says EU chief – Politics live 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z On the remain side of the Conservatives, the former education secretary Justine Greening called the Chequers plan “more unpopular than the poll tax”, saying May should start again from scratch. Pro-Brexit Tory MPs openly discuss how to get rid of Theresa May 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, also attacked the prime minister's Chequers plan for post-Brexit trade, claiming it was "even more unpopular than the poll tax" had been in Scotland. Prime Minister's Questions: The verdict 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z On the other side of the EU debate, former education secretary Justine Greening, who wants a referendum on the final EU deal, said the Chequers package was less popular than the poll tax. Raab to face MPs amid Brexit row 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Anti-lynching bills, integration of the armed forces, abolition of poll taxes, civil rights — all earned Russell’s vehement opposition. Opinion | The Russell Senate Office Building is long overdue for a new name 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In the 1930s and 1940s, Russell participated in Southern filibusters to block federal bills aimed at suppressing lynchings and poll taxes. Opinion | McCain might be the right name for a Senate building. Russell sure isn’t. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Purges became a favored vote- suppression tactic, alongside poll taxes and literacy tests. Opinion | Vote or be purged? That’s wrong. 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Instead of focusing on inaccurate voter rolls, he recalled the history of literacy tests, poll taxes and other requirements he said were created to "keep certain groups of citizens from voting." In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upholds Ohio's aggressive efforts to purge its voter rolls 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Republicans argue the bill clears up confusion and is necessary to ensure fairness, while Democrats argue it amounts to a poll tax and would deter students from voting. Holder at odds with New Hampshire Democrats on voting bill 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Holder’s comments at Saint Anselm College on Friday put him at odds with fellow Democrats, who argue changing the law would impose a poll tax on students and deter them from voting. Holder at odds with New Hampshire Democrats on voting bill 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “The imposition of fees on voters simply because they decide to register to vote in New Hampshire is the very definition of a poll tax,” said Gilles Bissonnette, the ACLU’s legal director. State high court hears from 10 parties on voting rights bill 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z His parents had to pay poll taxes to vote. An African American leader brings a provocative take to expanded Civil War museum 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Opponents argue it amounts to a poll tax because out-of-state college students and others would be subject to requirements such as getting a New Hampshire driver’s license. Senate committee takes up latest voter eligibility bill 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z In those days, state lawmakers relied on bogus literacy tests or poll taxes to deny suffrage to blacks. Opinion | Kris Kobach’s Voting Sham Gets Exposed in Court 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Sen. Mike Groene of North Platte compared the bill to a poll tax, arguing that both taxes affect constitutional rights. Bill to tax ammunition faces resistance in Nebraska hearing 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Supporters of the legislation, however, argued that a poll tax exists only if paying a fee is required before voting, which would not be the case if it passes. State high court hears from 10 parties on voting rights bill 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Opponents argue it essentially creates a poll tax, would discourage voting and attempts to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Senate passes bill to tighten voter eligibility 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z He personally raised the red flag above Sheffield town hall and also risked imprisonment by openly refusing to pay the poll tax. The MPs and ex-MPs who died in 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z She was also angry about his plans to abandon one of her signature policies, the poll tax. Thatcher and Major clashed over economy 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Yesterday it was called the poll tax; today its voter ID, purging rolls . Culling Voter Rolls: Battling Over Who Even Gets to Go to the Polls 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z I am all for the fair distribution of wealth, but I hope there is a more effective solution than a robot poll tax. The rise of the robots need not spell downfall for humans | Chi Onwurah 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z And the poll taxes and felony disenfranchisement policies his party promotes, aimed at limiting black electoral power, affect white people from Wisconsin to Alabama. Concerned about 'Identity extremists?' There's one in the White House | Steven W Thrasher 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z "He was scrupulously loyal to Margaret Thatcher, except over the poll tax and NHS dental and optical charges," the paper reported. The MPs and ex-MPs who died in 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z In 1964, the 24th amendment abolished the poll tax, but to this day in Alabama, money keeps thousands of people away from the ballot box. Too poor to vote: how Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z First conjure the crime – the generational destruction of human bodies – and all of its related offences – domestic terrorism, poll taxes, mass incarceration. We should have seen Trump coming | Ta-Nehisi Coates 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The suit notes that the same constitution adopted restrictive poll taxes, literacy requirements and residency requirements to disenfranchise people. Lawsuit seeks to end Mississippi’s lifetime felon voting ban 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z In the aftermath of Reconstruction, southern states used poll taxes to deny poor black and white men the vote. 7 Things People Get Wrong About American History 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z A federal district court ruling recently said Texas’ law amounted to a “poll tax” on minority voters. Wednesday's Campaign Round-Up, 9.6.17 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, said such widespread disenfranchisement amounts to “the poll tax in extreme”, and that it has a detrimental impact on the democratic process in Alabama. Too poor to vote: how Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Judge Gonzales Ramos had issued the permanent injunction against a subsequent voter ID law on Aug. 23, calling it a “poll tax” on minority voters. Appeals Panel Stays Injunction Against Texas Voter ID Law 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Gonzales Ramos had issued the permanent injunction against a subsequent voter ID law on Aug. 23, calling it a “poll tax” on minority voters. Appeals court stays injunction against Texas voter ID law 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The judge compared the law to a poll tax on minorities. Perspective | The racial strife that can blow in with a hurricane 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The repeal of these laws coincided with the enactment of other restrictions, like poll taxes, literacy tests and voter registration requirements. Maryland City May Let Noncitizens Vote, a Proposal With Precedent 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Such financial barriers amount to “an unconstitutional poll tax that discriminates against individuals on the basis of wealth”, according to Randall Marshall, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama. Too poor to vote: how Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z It is an excuse to deny voting rights, just like voter ID laws and the literacy tests and poll taxes of old. America steals votes from felons. Until it stops, our democracy will be weakened | Russ Feingold 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Then, in 1892, a poll tax was enacted, so people couldn’t afford to vote anymore. Arkansas woman recounts grandpa’s post-Reconstruction work 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The Galveston Plan thus stands — with the imposition of the poll tax in 1901 and the white primary in 1923 — as a signal event in Texas’s disfranchisement of African Americans. Perspective | The racial strife that can blow in with a hurricane 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Margaret Thatcher’s plan to introduce the poll tax, officially called the community charge, was eventually abandoned following riots in 1990. 'She's adrift': Tories concerned over Theresa May's Grenfell response 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The same principle informed the “grandfather clauses” of the Jim Crow era, which exempted most white voters from literacy tests and poll taxes designed to disenfranchise black voters. The Man Behind Trump’s Voter Fraud Obsession 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z We endured poll taxes at the voting booth and burned crosses in the churchyard. A Celebration of Black Lawyers, Past and Present 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Since the fee is voluntary, Utah Elections Director Mark Thomas says it doesn’t appear to be an illegal poll tax. Utah GOP asking for $25 fee to vote on Chaffetz replacement 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Walden also conceals a dramatic interlude, which Thoreau chooses not to elaborate on: his arrest for non-payment of poll tax, an episode alluded to in the chapter entitled The Village. The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: No 64 – Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854) 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, the 16th authorized the progressive income tax, the 17th ended the purchase of Senate seats, and the 24th abolished the poll tax. Opinion | Can the American republic survive extreme economic inequality? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Brown was the first person Kobach ever met who had paid a poll tax. The Man Behind Trump’s Voter Fraud Obsession 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The barrister turned politician led the Home Office at the time of the poll tax riots and the Strangeways prison disturbances in the Spring of 1990. Former Home Secretary Lord Waddington dies at age of 87 - BBC News 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “If you are poor that is a poll tax.” Tom Perez: Trump’s voter fraud claim is ‘bunk’ 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z They said the state explicitly targeted blacks when it included felon disenfranchisement in the 1902 constitution and compared the fee-payment requirement to a poll tax. GOP legislature moves to wrest regulatory power from Va. governor 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The poll tax - officially called the community charge - was introduced in Scotland a year before it was rolled out UK-wide. Cabinet files: Ministers thought poll tax was 'proceeding smoothly' - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Thatcher’s departure was partially precipitated by popular resentment over the poll tax, which she championed. Thatcher's resignation shocked politicians in US and USSR, files show 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The size of the files alone - there are nine thick manila folders compiled over 18 months - are evidence of how far the poll tax dominated government thinking. National Archives: Thatcher's poll tax miscalculation - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z I didn’t need much money as I had no expenses – I paid a bit of poll tax and rent but had no bills. 'If you choose to be alone you can't be lonely': meet the modern-day hermits | Guardian readers and Sarah Marsh 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Demands that Obama produce his birth certificate directly echoed poll taxes and literacy tests of the past. Stalking, gaslighting, threatening violence: The abusive shape of Hillary Clinton hate 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It was announced in 1991 - less than three years after its introduction - that the poll tax would itself be replaced. Cabinet files: Ministers thought poll tax was 'proceeding smoothly' - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It is a story told in spectacle lynchings and burning schoolhouses, in poll taxes and restrictive covenants. Because a white man was scared 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Should councils be allowed to use cash from the sale of council houses to subsidise the poll tax? National Archives: Thatcher's poll tax miscalculation - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Like Jim Crow laws, including the Alabama poll tax that a federal court struck down in 1966, it’s a tactic to impede the right of African Americans to vote, he said. Trump's call for policing urban polls stirs defiant reaction among black voters 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Yet, Adams and many other blacks in the South were denied the right to vote because they had no money to pay the poll tax. 102-year-old voter marks 18th presidential election 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z UK ministers believed implementation of the poll tax in Scotland was "proceeding smoothly" in its early weeks, previously secret papers show. Cabinet files: Ministers thought poll tax was 'proceeding smoothly' - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z They will be taking a page from their forebears, who used poll taxes, literacy tests and violence to challenge and suppress the black vote. Here’s how to fight Trump’s ballot bullies 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Gerrymander and conquer, put in a new poll tax, aka Voter I.D. What Happened to North Carolina? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Its history — like those of many Southern states — is littered with laws and policies specifically designed to deter black voters: literacy tests, poll taxes and required recitations of the preamble of the Constitution. Inside the Republican creation of the North Carolina voting bill dubbed the ‘monster’ law 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z At the time, New York City had no poll tax, unlike southern states, but did require residents to take literacy tests to prove they were educated enough to vote. 102-year-old voter marks 18th presidential election 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The poll tax harmed the voting rights of minorities, for example. Election-time trio of exhibits on display in Texarkana 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z And like poll taxes and literacy tests, they unjustifiably block ballot access. The Real Reason You Can't Vote for an Independent Candidate 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Along the same lines, Voter ID - also a de facto poll tax - is inherently discriminatory to women, who tend to change their name more often than men. What Happened to North Carolina? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The future of the poll tax dominated exchanges. Watch: Past leaders make their PMQs debut - BBC News 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z It would be another 17 years before the civil rights movement led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act prohibiting literacy tests and poll taxes as prerequisites to voting. 102-year-old voter marks 18th presidential election 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Dating from 1925, it includes information on the poll tax, which limited democratic participation in the voting process. Election-time trio of exhibits on display in Texarkana 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Controversial policies including the poll tax and her opposition to any closer integration with Europe produced divisions within the Conservative Party which led to a leadership challenge from former cabinet minister Michael Heseltine. 13 Downing Street departures - BBC News 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Jim Crow’s infamous poll tax divested poor whites as well as poor blacks of the right to vote. Five myths about class in America 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z "It's a modern poll tax on the working class," he says. Across the World, Where Are the Voters? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In 1990, with several of the cabinet unhappy about her attitude to Europe and handling of the introduction of the community charge, or "poll tax", she was also deposed. Conservative leadership: A real-life House of Cards? - BBC News 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z They couldn’t afford the poll tax or couldn’t make it to the polling place. Election-time trio of exhibits on display in Texarkana 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z He told the Nation magazine in April that “in 1901 and 1902 they put literacy tests, the poll tax and then disenfranchisement of felons into the state’s constitution.” Terry McAuliffe vs. the Rule of Law 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z McAuliffe framed the order as a removal of the last vestige of laws such as poll taxes and literacy tests that disproportionately affected the voting rights of African Americans. Virginia Supreme Court takes up challenge to McAuliffe rights restoration order 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z McAuliffe denied any political motives and framed the order as a removal of the last vestige of laws such as poll taxes and literacy tests that disproportionately affected the voting rights of African Americans. Herring defends McAuliffe’s voting rights order in face of GOP lawsuit 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Constitution, which expressly prohibits the imposition of a “poll tax.” Ohio appeals U.S. court decision in favor of early voting 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It rejected parts of the district judge’s ruling, finding, for instance, that the law didn’t amount to an illegal “poll tax”. Appeals court weighs whether Texas voter ID law is discriminatory 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z It rejected parts of the district judge's ruling, finding, for instance, that the law didn't amount to an illegal "poll tax." US appeals court revisits Texas voter ID law 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Harsanyi does acknowledge one potential infirmity, nodding in his conclusion to “the ugly history of poll taxes and other prejudicial methods that Americans used to deny black citizens their equal right to vote.” The Troll Booth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Of course, we also must remember the ugly history of poll taxes and other prejudicial methods that Americans used to deny black citizens their equal right to vote. We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Preventing felons from voting was an integral part of disenfranchisement laws, in addition to poll taxes and literacy tests. This is part of a new, better Virginia 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Many of the policies adopted in pursuit of this goal – literacy tests, poll taxes, et al – were rejected over time through court rulings and federal civil-rights laws, but felon disenfranchisement remained in effect. Virginia GOP to sue McAuliffe over felon voting rights 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “Even at $2, the toll is at odds with this court’s precedent,” she wrote, citing a 1966 decision striking down Virginia’s poll tax. Justices Leave Texas Voter ID Law Intact, With a Warning 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Howard said in an interview that McAuliffe’s action “buries the last ghost” of the 1902 Virginia convention that produced a constitution mandating a poll tax, literacy test and complicated registration requirements. About 200,000 convicted felons in Virginia will now have the right to vote in November 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Virginia’s Constitution has prohibited felons from voting since the Civil War; the restrictions were expanded in 1902, as part of a package that included poll taxes and literacy tests. Virginia Governor Restoring Voting Rights to Felons 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z One recent guest, gun lobbyist Jim Wallace, compared new gun permitting rules in Lowell, Mass., to a poll tax levied against African Americans during the Jim Crow era. Alarming news from the NRA — via a calm, steady voice 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Southern whites perfected the practice in the aftermath of Reconstruction, using literacy tests, poll taxes and other means to disenfranchise virtually the entire black population and much of the poor white population to boot. One person, one vote in America? The ideal is often not the practice 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The end of Reconstruction gave way, however, to a period of disenfranchisement at the hands of Southern Democrats, with poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures. Your Thursday Briefing 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, every Southern state instituted literacy tests and poll taxes to effectively remove African Americans from the citizenship they were supposed to have been guaranteed by the 14th Amendment . Five myths about Reconstruction 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Just as past generations took action to end practices like poll taxes and literacy tests, it falls to our generation to end the perverse influence of big money in our politics. Rep. Grijalva: Citizens United Undermines Our Democracy 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z One reason, according to some analysts, is the legacy of the hated poll tax and its architect, Mrs Thatcher - the great she-devil of Scottish nationalism. Ruth Davidson: The 'tough old bird' of Tory Scotland - BBC News 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The 24th Amendment championed the democratic rights of the poor by banning poll taxes. One person, one vote in America? The ideal is often not the practice 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The Democratic Congress in 1894 overturned the sections of the Enforcement Act of 1870 proscribing poll taxes and literacy tests for voters in federal elections. Karl Rove is a bad historian: Race, the South and the real story he doesn’t tell about William McKinley and 1896 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The lawsuit also says the problems are exacerbated by Virginia’s history of slavery, poll taxes and school segregation. Trump supporters sue Virginia over GOP loyalty pledge 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z This Saturday is the 52nd anniversary of the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which outlawed poll taxes that had prevented African Americans and the poor from voting in southern states. Rep. Grijalva: Citizens United Undermines Our Democracy 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In 1901, as part of a Constitutional Convention, it introduced a poll tax and a literacy test. New lawsuit challenges Alabama voter ID law 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z However, poll taxes, literacy tests and other discriminatory practices during the South’s Jim Crow era made it difficult or impossible for many blacks to even register to vote. Kentucky editorial roundup 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Black people made it past the poll tax, literacy tests, everything, to get the right to vote. 'Driving is a privilege, voting is a right': Alabama license-office cuts bite deep 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The Boston Globe calls it the new poll tax: the fact that many coming presidential debates will not be aired on free television, but only on cable. Today in Politics: Obama's Delicate Spot With Joe Biden as Hillary Clinton Maneuvers 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z "The Seattle ordinance is nothing but a 'poll tax' on the Second Amendment and an effort to drive Seattle's firearms retailers out of business," said National Shooting Sports Foundation General Counsel Lawrence Keane, a plaintiff. National Rifle Association sues Seattle over 'gun violence' tax 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The 1902 Constitution of Virginia instituted a poll tax and literacy tests to limit voting by African Americans. Virginia’s new poll tax 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that Texas’s voter ID law “has a discriminatory effect” and amounted to a poll tax. The battle for voting rights continues 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Yet, if we move forward with this, we’re effectively putting a poll tax on the poor.” California Senate approves bill reacting to anti-gay plan 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Devices that once blocked minorities’ access to the ballot, like the voter fees known as poll taxes, had been outlawed for more than forty years. A Limited Victory for Voting Rights in Texas 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes. Registration urged to mark Voting Rights Act anniversary 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The new poll tax in Virginia is photo identification, restricted to certain types of photo IDs. Virginia’s new poll tax 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The decision prompted several states to adopt voter ID laws, which Democrats, including Mrs. Clinton, blast as modern-day poll taxes. Hillary Clinton courts blacks, slams GOP over civil rights on Al Sharpton’s radio show 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Today is the 50th anniversary of the Federal Voting Rights Act, which eased the way for minorities to vote in states that used poll taxes, literacy tests, civics quizzes and violence. Your Thursday Briefing 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Last year, a Texas federal judge called the law the equivalent of a poll tax, but the three-judge panel of the New Orleans court disagreed. U.S. appeals court panel rules against Texas voter-ID law 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Because of the Voting Rights Act, millions of minorities have exercised their right to vote in states that previously hindered them through tactics such as poll taxes, literacy tests, civics quizzes or violence. Things to know about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Whereas a Texas federal judge last year called the voter ID law the equivalent of a poll tax, a three-judge panel of the New Orleans court disagreed. Federal court says Texas voter ID violates Voting Rights Act 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In the Texas case, the Fifth Circuit overturned Judge Ramos’s finding that the law amounted to an illegal poll tax. Appellate Panel Says Texas ID Law Broke U.S. Voting Rights Act 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The New Orleans court disagreed that the law is a poll tax in sending the measure back to a lower court. Texas court strikes down voter ID law over 'discriminatory effect' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “I’m particularly pleased the panel saw through and rejected the plaintiffs’ claim that our law constituted a ‘poll tax,’ ” Paxton said. U.S. appeals court panel rules against Texas voter-ID law 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z From his Election Law Blog piece: The court affirms that the law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, but rejects the claim of discriminatory purpose and that the law constitutes a poll tax. Appeals court balks at Texas voter-ID scheme 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “I’m particularly pleased the panel saw through and rejected the plaintiffs’ claim that our law constituted a ‘poll tax.’ Federal court says Texas voter ID violates Voting Rights Act 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In striking down the Texas measure, however, the New Orleans-based appeals court did not find the voter ID requirement to be the equivalent of a poll tax. Court Strikes Down 'Discriminatory' Texas Voter ID Law 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z It led to the abolition of the poll tax. “A really disturbing turning point”: Why Bush v. Gore began a devastating new era for American civil rights 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court banned such poll taxes in state elections in 1966. Voting Rights Still a Hot-Button Issue 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The changes at issue sound tame and almost inconsequential, compared with the poll taxes, literacy tests and voter intimidation tactics that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act. N.C. case represents pivotal point of voting debate 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z What followed was deconstruction: the era of Jim Crow, the poll tax, the literacy test, double primaries and a host of other mechanisms that blocked the black vote. A Dream Undone 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Creating the poll tax was a "serious mistake", one of the architects of the ill-fated charge has said. Poll tax was 'a serious mistake' - Waldegrave - BBC News 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The North Carolina case tests the effectiveness of Section 2 in an age when voting discrimination does not take the ugly, obvious form of literacy tests or poll taxes. Another civil rights struggle in the Carolinas over voting 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Alabama systematically denied African Americans their voting rights by means of poll taxes. From Mockingbird to Watchman: A Changing Alabama 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z They are a far cry from the violent intimidation and poll taxes of the Jim Crow era. Voting Rights Legacy of the ’60s Heads to Court as North Carolina Law Is Tested 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z But again, the segregationist Democrats who had for many years controlled the South watered down its voting provisions, leaving the poll tax and the literacy test in place. A Dream Undone 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z She championed civil rights, lobbied against the poll tax, pushed for a living wage. Why Eleanor Roosevelt should be on U.S. currency 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Roberts was 17 – a Trenton bellhop who had run off with the cash that was to have paid his father’s poll tax, and lied about his age when he enlisted. “Oh, you Black Death!”: Henry Johnson fought valiantly in WWI and was hailed as a “race-hero” — until he returned home 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z A federal judge in Corpus Christi last year put the figure at more than 600,000 and said the law was an “unconstitutional poll tax” with an unfair effect on minorities. Hillary Clinton: GOP candidates 'afraid of democracy' with voting rights stances 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr Whittingdale has been a critic of the licence fee in the past, saying last year it was "worse than a poll tax" and "unsustainable" in the long term. New culture secretary John Whittingdale quizzed on BBC future - BBC News 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The former chair of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee has previously called the TV licence "worse than a poll tax" and said it was "becoming harder and harder to justify". John Whittingdale 'good choice' for culture secretary says outgoing BBC Trust vice-chair - BBC News 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z He was also working with Conservative Party HQ when the poll tax was introduced under Margaret Thatcher. PM's adviser Andrew Dunlop gets Scotland Office job - BBC News 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr Whittingdale has described the licence fee as "worse than a poll tax" and "unsustainable". Sajid Javid: Calling a strike will be harder - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z He has also been widely quoted as describing the licence fee as "worse than the poll tax". Has war been declared on the BBC? - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr Whittingdale has previously described the BBC licence fee as "worse than a poll tax", calling it "unsustainable" in the long term. BBC drama at 'a tipping point' with licence fee cuts - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Last October, he said the TV licence "was unsustainable over 20 to 50 years", it was "worse than a poll tax" and must be "tweaked immediately". John Whittingdale becomes UK culture secretary - BBC News 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He supported an anti-lynching bill, abolition of the poll tax and the admission of black students to the University of Texas law school. Jim Wright, House speaker who resigned amid an ethics investigation, dies at 92 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It was introduced in 1993 to replace the community charge or "poll tax". Commission on council tax alternatives calls for evidence - BBC News 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Texas said District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos erred when she found last October that the law unconstitutionally burdens the right to vote, discriminates against minorities, and is a poll tax. Voter ID law deemed as racially discriminatory could get new life 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Another issue touched on in Tuesday's arguments: Whether fees involved in obtaining proper IDs constitute an unconstitutional "poll tax." Texas asks appeals court to uphold voter photo ID law 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Last October, it was struck down as racially discriminatory under a different part of the VRA, and as an unconstitutional poll tax. Right to vote at stake in Texas voter ID appeal 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “It would impose a poll tax in the state of New Hampshire. It would impose a fee to vote.” State Supreme Court hears arguments on voter registration 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Some critics equated that to a “poll tax” on students, who are seen as leaning Democratic. Kasich strikes voter item in Ohio bill: A look at its impact 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Rather than moving ahead toward smart use of technology to improve elections in our state, lawmakers for the last several years tried to go backward to the days of poll taxes and literacy tests. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Boynton Robinson became a registered voter in 1932, but many blacks, particularly in the South, remained disenfranchised due to obstacles, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, enforced by state and local authorities. Memories of Selma and 'Bloody Sunday': 'They came with nightsticks' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z When voters of color were blocked from the ballot box by literacy tests, poll taxes and registration restrictions 50 years ago, people united in Selma to fight back. Why North Carolina is the new Selma 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z British voters witnessed the power of reframing and renaming in the 1990s when the "community charge" was rebranded by opponents as the hated "poll tax." Why do politicians speak the way they do? 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z This receipt is for her annual poll tax in 1957, shortly before she and her husband left Montgomery for Detroit. What the Rosa Parks Archive Reveals About a Civil Rights Hero 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z It is a form of poll tax, which was outlawed by the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Texas’s voter ID law also is in limbo after being struck down as a racially discriminatory poll tax, then put back into effect for last fall’s election. Supreme Court could rule on Wisconsin voter ID law 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s like the old poll taxes that made voting costly. Campaign Finance Laws Don't Clean Up Politics, But Do Erode Our Freedom 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Newly-released cabinet papers from Margaret Thatcher's time in power have confirmed that then Scottish Secretary George Younger pushed for the poll tax to be introduced early in Scotland. Secret papers reveal poll tax push 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Even if they were able to overcome the numerous hurdles designed to deny them the right to vote, African Americans were confronted by the requirement that they pay back poll taxes. What the Rosa Parks Archive Reveals About a Civil Rights Hero 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The poll tax was designed to keep blacks from voting, as is the voter ID. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph described him as being on the right of his party before 1987, but attributed his political shift to Margaret Thatcher's poll tax. The ex-MPs who died in 2014 - part one 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z We had to pass a so-called literacy test, pay a poll tax, and interpret certain sections of the Alabama state constitution. Rep. John Lewis: An Oral History of Selma and the Struggle for the Voting Rights Act 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The community charge, widely referred to as the poll tax, was a new system of taxation introduced to replace domestic rates. Secret papers reveal poll tax push 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Collection of poll tax debts will end on 1 February next year. Poll tax debts to end in February 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z If many states’ voter-ID laws help represent a modern-day poll tax, perhaps it shouldn’t be too surprising that literacy tests strike some as appealing, too. Literacy tests were outlawed for a reason 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z By pushing ahead with the deeply unpopular poll tax, they showed they cared more about clinging on to their view of the world than staying in power. Does anybody ever 'think the unthinkable'? 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr Brown will argue that the Smith Commission means a future Westminster government would no longer be able to foist the "bedroom tax" or the poll tax on Scotland. Brown wants Scots politics 'reset' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Then, in 1964, in the heat of the Civil Rights movement, the nation enacted the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, forever banning poll taxes in federal elections. A 28th Amendment Will Reclaim Democracy and Political Equality 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The poll tax, or community charge, was abolished more than 20 years ago in 1993 after only four years in operation in Scotland. Poll tax debts to end in February 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Under the circumstances, it seems hard to deny that we’re talking about a policy of modern-day poll taxes. A poll tax by another name is still a poll tax 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z This month, a federal court ruled that the voter ID law amounted to a poll tax, in response to a challenge from U.S. As Texas votes early, voter ID sparks frustration and motivation 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Judge Ramos’s opinion was utterly persuasive, especially on the historically resonant point about the poll tax. Freedom Summer, 2015 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Two years later, the Supreme Court finally got it right, issuing a ruling striking down, on equal protection grounds, the poll tax for Virginia’s state elections. A 28th Amendment Will Reclaim Democracy and Political Equality 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The unpopular poll tax, which replaced the rates system, was introduced by the Conservative Thatcher government in Scotland in 1989 before the rest of the country, sparking protests on the streets. Poll tax debts to end in February 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The effect of all these policies is identical to a poll tax…. A poll tax by another name is still a poll tax 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z She linked SB 14 to a long history of racial discrimination in state elections spanning back generations, and declared the new law to be an unconstitutional poll tax. 'Born and raised' Texans forced to prove identities under new voter-ID law 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z As Judge Gonzalez Ramos aptly noted, the expensive hoops that a Texas citizen must jump through to obtain a birth certificate and present it to the voter-registration authorities amount to a poll tax. Freedom Summer, 2015 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The most relevant example for our time is the history of the poll tax, a fee charged to voters for decades throughout the Deep South, disproportionately blocking African-American citizens from exercising the franchise. A 28th Amendment Will Reclaim Democracy and Political Equality 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr Swinney said the legislation would mean that collections would cease and the poll tax would be "consigned to history for once and for all". Poll tax debts to end in February 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And Texas’s new voter ID law, the law that a district court judge determined constitutes an “unconstitutional poll tax” and is estimated to disenfranchise 600,000 voters, many of them people of color. A letter to North Carolina student voters 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z It also made it illegal to abridge the vote, through changes like moving polling places without informing voters, or requiring poll taxes. The precarious position of voting rights 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z She further ruled that the law, known as SB 14, “constitutes an unconstitutional poll tax.” Freedom Summer, 2015 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Blacks weren't prevented from voting outright, but restrictive local laws, like poll taxes and literacy tests, made it nearly impossible. Voting Laws Had a Bigger Impact on Education Than Segregation 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Additionally, the Twenty-fourth Amendment protects us from poll taxes. Judging the Right to Vote 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Among other things, the district court concluded that the measures violated both the remaining provisions of the Voting Rights Act and the constitutional prohibition against poll taxes. Supreme Court clears Texas voter-ID law 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z George P. Bush is on the verge of winning his first race and a disputed voter ID law that a federal judge denounced as a poll tax remains in effect. AP-TX—Texas News Digest 1 pm, TX 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z His Democratic challenger, Jean Schodorf, called this a modern poll tax and a national disgrace. Voter ID Firebrand Takes a Low-Profile Kansas Office Out of the Shadows 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Though the appeals court barely mentioned it, the district court’s original ruling, a careful but scathing 147-page opinion, found that the law intentionally discriminated against blacks and Latinos, calling it a “poll tax.” Texas voter ID case to test Supreme Court's priorities 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The judge also ruled that the ID measure is an unconstitutional “poll tax.” Texas stopped issuing voter IDs while pushing to reinstate law 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z "It's nothing more than a 'poll tax,' which means democracy and all Texans lose," Davis said. Appeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Ramos struck down Texas’ voter ID law, one of the strictest in the nation, calling it “an unconstitutional poll tax.” Texas Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional and Discriminates Against Minorities 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z “President Clinton and I both called it a poll tax,” he said Tuesday, “and it’s heartening to hear that the judge agreed.” Holder feels 'vindication' on voting rights 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Then Ho explains that voter ID laws like Wisconsin’s force many people to pay a fee in order to vote—meaning they’re essentially poll taxes. Restrict voting rights? Not on comedian Lewis Black's watch 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z First Minister Alex Salmond announced on Thursday that legislation would be brought in to stop councils using details of people who registered to vote in the independence referendum to recover poll tax debt. Row over MacAskill poll tax tweet 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z It was put to him that councils were not making much effort to collect historic poll tax debts anyway, with Glasgow only collecting £5,000 last year. Salmond defends poll tax debt ban 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z This was not the case with the “hugely discredited” poll tax, which became notorious in Scotland after it was tested there first by Thatcher’s government. Alex Salmond to ban Scottish councils from chasing historic poll tax debts 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The Scottish government will being in new laws to stop councils pursuing people for historic poll tax debts. Plan to block poll tax collection 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Roadtesting the poll tax on the Scots was the final straw, completing the decimation of the Tory vote in Scotland in 1992. What now for Britishness? 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Scottish heavy industry was decimated, and there is lingering bitterness at the way Thatcher used Scotland as the testing ground for a regressive, flat-rate poll tax. Special Report: Scotland stays in UK, but Britain faces change 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The unpopular poll tax - officially known as the community charge - was introduced by the Conservative government in Scotland in 1989, a year ahead of the rest of the UK, sparking a mass campaign of non-payment. Salmond defends poll tax debt ban 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The "poll tax" — a levy on individuals that was the same regardless of income — was introduced to replace the previous funding system for local government. Scottish mistrust of Conservatives key in campaign 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z By the late 1980s, with many Scots angered by a new poll tax imposed by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, Salmond seized his chance. Salmond a likely winner whichever way Scots vote on independence 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z "Westminster governments - rejected at the ballot box in Scotland - will no longer be able to inflict the poll tax or bedroom tax on the most vulnerable in our society," he added. Scottish question hits East Midlands 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z A movement of Scottish, English and Welsh citizens not only defeated the poll tax, but ejected Margaret Thatcher from office too. Whatever Scotland decides, the old order is dead and buried 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z He told listeners: "It's impossible, illegal in fact, for a council to start pursuit of poll tax debt. There is a 20-year limit by the law. " Salmond defends poll tax debt ban 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1990, Thatcher was toppled by her own party, partly because of the backlash against the poll tax, which was soon scrapped. Scottish mistrust of Conservatives key in campaign 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Salmond can inveigh against Margaret Thatcher and the poll tax to applause from people far too young to have been alive in the 1980s. Scottish referendum: this is the hardest campaign I have ever had to call 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Texas’s voter ID measure was passed by Republicans in 2011, and denounced by Attorney General Eric Holder as a “poll tax.” Sky-high stakes in Texas voter ID trial 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Holder , which gutted the Voting Rights Act and opened the door to 21st-century versions of 19th-century literacy tests and poll taxes. Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress. And he dismissed calls for people who paid the poll tax to now receive a rebate. Salmond defends poll tax debt ban 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z At the same time as they cut income tax and public spending, the first Thatcher administration hiked the sales tax, VAT – a flat-rate tax far more remorselessly regressive than the poll tax. Sale of the century: the privatisation scam 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z He’s even called Texas’s voter ID law a “poll tax,” deliberately linking it to the now unconstitutional Jim Crow tactics aimed at keeping blacks from voting. Eric Holder goes to the mat for voting rights 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z You’ll sometimes see the jizya called a poll tax because it is a tax on individuals and not based on income or property. Islamic State Warns Christians: Convert, Pay Tax, Leave Or Die 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z But many Scots believed they had been singled out—often noting that Thatcher’s most unpopular policy, the poll tax, was introduced in Scotland first. How did it come to this? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He also said those who had contributed to the £396,000 of poll tax debt that was collected by councils last year were on long-term payment plans. Salmond defends poll tax debt ban 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Like many southern states, North Carolina introduced hurdles to voting in the early 20th century specifically targeted at African Americans, including a poll tax and literacy tests. North Carolina voter law challenged: 'the worst suppression since Jim Crow' 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z This other history goes back to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, when ordinary folk rose in rebellion at a poll tax. Sorry, David Cameron, but your British history is not mine 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Within three weeks he was shepherding legislation to abolish the poll tax and liberalize immigration. David W. Burke, Trusted Aide to Powerful Men, Dies at 78 2014-04-28T00:17:21Z By the late 1980s, with many Scots angered about a new poll tax by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, Salmond seized his chance. Scotland's Salmond talks independence, but plays politics 2014-03-11T07:08:46Z Will residual anger from Margaret Thatcher's poll tax affect Scotland's referendum? Eight world views on Scots referendum 2014-02-13T01:06:30Z In 1990, when she found herself at loggerheads with her party over the poll tax, it was Cole who correctly predicted that she would not survive as leader. Obituary: John Cole 2013-11-08T11:17:02Z Also on show are pictures of poll tax demonstrations at Leeds Town Hall... In pictures: My generation 2013-10-03T09:29:23Z Democrats and civil rights groups say the changes are political attacks aimed at minorities and students — voting groups that tend to lean Democratic — in states with legacies of poll taxes and literacy tests. Fight is on over efforts to tighten voting rules; critics see it as a violation of Voting Rights Act 2013-09-30T00:04:58Z The poll tax riots of the previous March had shaken the Conservative government's credibility with the electorate, as had signs of a weakening economy. Election countdown: 92 weeks to go 2013-08-03T00:19:35Z I was amazed at their anger with the poll tax and frustration over Margaret Thatcher. Eight world views on Scots referendum 2014-02-13T01:06:30Z Measures crafted in the days of poll taxes and murderous repression require fresh analysis in a time of black mayors and an African-American president. Change in the U.S.: Rolling Back DOMA and the Voting Rights Act 2013-06-27T11:05:26Z |
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