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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:45 PM Original message |
What is "the poll tax"? |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. Requiring state ID, such as driver's license, in order to vote |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. Originally, back in the day, it was a way to keep blacks out of the voting |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. A small fee for voting |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Any bets wether Bush extends the Voting Rights Act in 2007? |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 08:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Heard on the Majority Report |
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montieg (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. A fee |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I'd pay it as long as we had paper ballots and Diebold etal |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 08:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. I was paying it in the 60's in PA. |
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shoelace414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. it was a tax everyone had to pay |
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shoelace414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 07:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I wrote a LTTE about it, but they didn't publish it. |
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Puzzler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. A poll tax... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-13-05 05:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. And to make that clear |
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Inland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. Poll tax means a head tax, a flat fee per capita. |
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PowerToThePeople (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
13. The cash I give the ladies of the night? J/k.... |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 08:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. :: rimshot :: |
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Geoff R. Casavant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. US Const |
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mtnester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-05 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
16. It was what happened in Ohio in November 2004 |
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Lethe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-13-05 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
18. Thoreau refused to pay it!! Everybody read Civil Disobedience! |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-13-05 09:35 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Hi ikhor!! |
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MaineDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-13-05 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
20. And Georgia is trying to reinstate it |
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