Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111214:02:47:00
If you cast your first vote anytime after the advent of push-button telephones, by law you should never have encountered a poll tax. this is a receipt for a poll tax in florida. before 1964, it was still legal in this country to charge a tax, to charge money for the privilege of voting. the 24th amendment put an end to that. at least in federal elections. the next year in 1965, president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act which made it illegal to tax people wanting to cast a ballot in a state election or local election as well. but before then, you could make people pay money as a con...
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