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Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 24 – “Elimination of Poll Taxes” Amendment Twenty-four to the Constitution was ratified on January 23, 1964. It abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections.
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Section 1. 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 ...
Section 1. 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 ...

Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. Wikipedia
The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. Southern 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 ...
The Twenty-fourth Amendment was adopted as a response to policies adopted in various Southern states after the ending of post-Civil War Reconstruction (1865–77) ...
The Fifteenth Amendment states that the right to vote cannot be denied because of someone's race. The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. And the ...
#OnThisDay in 1962, the 24th Amendment, which prohibited the use or a poll tax as a condition for voting in federal elections, was passed by Congress.
The text of the Amendment expressly extended to congressional elections, the selection of presidential electors, and presidential primaries.
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