#polltax — Public Fediverse posts
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"It's very interesting that a party that courted Chinese voters for so long with 'low tax' promises, now wants to reintroduce something close to the 19th-century poll tax levied on the Chinese."
#TzeMingMok, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/594302/inhuman-ethnic-leaders-slam-act-immigration-plan
Isn't it just. ACT were still courting the Asian immigrant vote with their endorsements in the 2025 local body elections. Now they seen to be turning on them, to compete with Winston First for the anti-immigrant vote.
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This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.
However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.
The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States
#SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement
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This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.
However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.
The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States
#SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement
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This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.
However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.
The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States
#SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement
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This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.
However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.
The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States
#SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement
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This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.
However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.
The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States
#SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement
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#VotingRights #PollTax
Senate Democrats defeat amendment from Sen. Jon Husted to require photo ID to vote https://share.google/Ad12hhgdYAkXdZSCB -
#AriBerman speaks to #TRNN's Maximillian Alvarez
Start the steal? Inside Trump's effort to rig the #midtermelections
https://therealnews.com/start-the-steal-inside-trumps-effort-to-rig-the-midterm-elections#USMidtermElections #VoterSuppression #PollTax #MAGA
#NaziUSA
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#AriBerman speaks to #TRNN's Maximillian Alvarez
Start the steal? Inside Trump's effort to rig the #midtermelections
https://therealnews.com/start-the-steal-inside-trumps-effort-to-rig-the-midterm-elections#USMidtermElections #VoterSuppression #PollTax #MAGA
#NaziUSA
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#AriBerman speaks to #TRNN's Maximillian Alvarez
Start the steal? Inside Trump's effort to rig the #midtermelections
https://therealnews.com/start-the-steal-inside-trumps-effort-to-rig-the-midterm-elections#USMidtermElections #VoterSuppression #PollTax #MAGA
#NaziUSA
#SAVEActIsBULLSHIT -
#AriBerman speaks to #TRNN's Maximillian Alvarez
Start the steal? Inside Trump's effort to rig the #midtermelections
https://therealnews.com/start-the-steal-inside-trumps-effort-to-rig-the-midterm-elections#USMidtermElections #VoterSuppression #PollTax #MAGA
#NaziUSA
#SAVEActIsBULLSHIT -
#AriBerman speaks to #TRNN's Maximillian Alvarez
Start the steal? Inside Trump's effort to rig the #midtermelections
https://therealnews.com/start-the-steal-inside-trumps-effort-to-rig-the-midterm-elections#USMidtermElections #VoterSuppression #PollTax #MAGA
#NaziUSA
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led Senate is debating the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Tell your senator NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121Marc Elias of Democracy Docket offers an in-depth, up-to-the-minute look at the dangerous #SAVEAct.https://youtu.be/ecmky5jtYiI?si=B_xP5lmWfCvvdODC#activism https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116139348180576747
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
URGENT UPDATE: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. That bill is being debated on the #USSenate floor NOW. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkexfuP3Tw#activism #congress #USSenate https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116137593797734844
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116128832295809823
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Having to purchase a passport or buy a copy of your birth certificate to vote is a poll tax and is unconstitutional (24th Amendment).
Republicans hate democracy.
#Republicans #fascist #democracy #usa #vote #polltax #constitution #illegal
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
UPDATE: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116105914095125258
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
UPDATE: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116087805058912480
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
THIS IS URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116082076759366658
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
UPDATE: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116077605819159336
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Now on Verdant Square Radio:
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116048731331519551
#SAVEAmericaAct #Votesuppression #Polltax #Filibuster #Activism #Congress #Activist #Getbusy #Vsn #Actionalert #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia
#VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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What is the SAVE America Act, and how could it change US voting? - CSMonitor.com
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0210/save-act-elections-voting-congress
#SAVEAmericaAct #news #voting #LearnSomething #elections #polltax #votesuppression #gop #republicans #vsn #SupportIndependentMedia
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Now on Verdant Square Radio:
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116043150447352466
#SAVEAmericaAct #Votesuppression #Polltax #Filibuster #Activism #Congress #Activist #Getbusy #Vsn #Actionalert #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia
#VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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Now on Verdant Square Radio:
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116031509570376965
#Polltax #SAVEAmericaAct #Votesuppression #Activism #Congress #Activist #Getbusy #Vsn #Actionalert #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia #Filibuster
#VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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Reference:
Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes”
#TrumpVIrus #GQP #ElectionRigging #VoterSuppression #PollTax #24thAmendment #democracy #truth
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Reference:
Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes”
#TrumpVIrus #GQP #ElectionRigging #VoterSuppression #PollTax #24thAmendment #democracy #truth
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Reference:
Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes”
#TrumpVIrus #GQP #ElectionRigging #VoterSuppression #PollTax #24thAmendment #democracy #truth
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Reference:
Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes”
#TrumpVIrus #GQP #ElectionRigging #VoterSuppression #PollTax #24thAmendment #democracy #truth
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Reference:
Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes”
#TrumpVIrus #GQP #ElectionRigging #VoterSuppression #PollTax #24thAmendment #democracy #truth
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Ugh. More venal #GQP / #TrumpVirus effort to eliminate #democracy - by (re) imposing poll taxes to #SAVE election rigging and prevent free, fair elections.
> CNBC host called out on live TV for giving away the game on GOP’s SAVE Act
https://www.alternet.org/save-act-2675105828/)
#corruption #24thAmendment #PollTax #Elections #dictatorship
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Farage “firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards” | …I hate it when I agree with him:
“It will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalise the rest of us. The state should never have this much power.”
Though I suspect that he just wants to have his own (not “Starmer’s”) ID cards, instead. I wonder if this will be Labour’s “Poll Tax”?
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#resist #actives #antifa #politics #palestineaction #refugeeswelcome #nrm #forevereuropean Is it me? It's that time of year when organisers get organised only to find just how many 'virtue signallers' there are amongst our numbers. Please note I do not march on Saturdays, only aggravates the tourists. I'm a 'stop the city' #polltax vet. Effective #NVDA needs to be targeted. Weds / Thurs best for #westminster
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#resist #actives #antifa #politics #palestineaction #refugeeswelcome #nrm #forevereuropean Is it me? It's that time of year when organisers get organised only to find just how many 'virtue signallers' there are amongst our numbers. Please note I do not march on Saturdays, only aggravates the tourists. I'm a 'stop the city' #polltax vet. Effective #NVDA needs to be targeted. Weds / Thurs best for #westminster
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#resist #actives #antifa #politics #palestineaction #refugeeswelcome #nrm #forevereuropean Is it me? It's that time of year when organisers get organised only to find just how many 'virtue signallers' there are amongst our numbers. Please note I do not march on Saturdays, only aggravates the tourists. I'm a 'stop the city' #polltax vet. Effective #NVDA needs to be targeted. Weds / Thurs best for #westminster
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#resist #actives #antifa #politics #palestineaction #refugeeswelcome #nrm #forevereuropean Is it me? It's that time of year when organisers get organised only to find just how many 'virtue signallers' there are amongst our numbers. Please note I do not march on Saturdays, only aggravates the tourists. I'm a 'stop the city' #polltax vet. Effective #NVDA needs to be targeted. Weds / Thurs best for #westminster
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#resist #actives #antifa #politics #palestineaction #refugeeswelcome #nrm #forevereuropean Is it me? It's that time of year when organisers get organised only to find just how many 'virtue signallers' there are amongst our numbers. Please note I do not march on Saturdays, only aggravates the tourists. I'm a 'stop the city' #polltax vet. Effective #NVDA needs to be targeted. Weds / Thurs best for #westminster
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On 31 March 1990, Trafalgar Square saw its largest number of arrested protesters with a staggering 339 people arrested because they objected to paying the hated #PollTax.
That was until 6 days ago, when that ceiling of 339 was smashed!
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More people were arrested for showing their support for #PalestineAction then there were who showed their disapproval of the #PollTax
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What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans -
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans -
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans -
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans -
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans -
‘A deeply broken system’: is it time England abandoned council tax? | Council tax | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/07/a-deeply-broken-system-is-it-time-england-abandoned-council-tax#CouncilTax
#LocalGov
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#FailureToUpdateHouseValue
#CouncilsGoingBust
#PollTax
#PropertyValuesIn1991
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Anarchists on anti-Poll Tax rally.
Edinburgh, 1980s.
