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Money paid in order to vote?

Updated: 9/13/2023
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Money paid in order to vote was called a poll tax. This money was supposedly to prove that you were a legal citizen. In actuality the poll tax was instituted to keep newly freed slaves from being able to vote. This is no longer legal.

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