Poll taxes were ruled unconstitutional 50 years ago, but many states continue to deny voting rights. ... Because the Voting Rights Act of 1965 does not explicitly ban poll taxes, ...

Chief Justice Earl Warren emphasized that Virginia’s escape clause for avoiding the $1.50 was unconstitutionally burdensome: “For federal elections,” he explained, “the poll tax is ...

FARGO - A leader of the ballot measure to eliminate North Dakota property taxes says a poll showing voters strongly oppose the proposal will spur the group to get its message across before the ...

The poll also asked which transactions responders would be most willing to tax to make up for the lost revenue if the income tax was eliminated. Even more people were unsure at 46% total.

Fifty years ago today, the 24th Amendment, prohibiting the use of poll taxes as voting qualifications in federal elections, became part of the U.S. Constitution.Poll taxes were among the devices used ...

Passed in Virginia in 1876, the poll tax ended in 1882 but was revived in the 1902 Virginia Constitution with the requirement, beginning in 1904, that any person who wanted to register to vote pay ...

A separate statewide poll from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County found a plurality of 40% would like to keep government services and taxes roughly as they are now.